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TheCalcutta flag was one of the first unofficialflags of India. It was designed bySachindra Prasad Bose andHemchandra Kanungo and unfurled on 7 August 1906 at Parsi Bagan Square (Greer Park),Calcutta.[1][2][3] The "flag of Indian independence", which was hoisted byMadam Bhikaji Cama at the International Socialist conference inStuttgart,Germany, was based on Calcutta flag.[4]
The flag had three horizontal bands of equal width with the top being orange, the centre yellow and the bottom green in colour. It had eight half-opened lotus flowers on the top stripe representing the eightprovinces ofBritish India and a picture of the sun and an crescent moon on the bottom stripe.वन्दे मातरम् (Vande Mataram, meaning "Mother, I bow to thee!") was inscribed in the centre inDevanagari.[4][5]
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