This is a list of flags used in

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by various organizations.

National flag

Governmental flag

Supreme Court

Ensigns

Naval

Port authorities

Military flags

Indian Armed Forces

Indian Army

Indian Navy

Current rank flags (2022-present)

Former rank flags (1950-2001; 2004-2022)

Former rank flags (2001-2004)

Indian Air Force

Current rank flags (1980-present)

Former rank flags (till 2023)

Former rank flags (1950-1980)

The former IAF rank flags were modeled on those of the

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...

, with different colours.

Coast Guard

Paramilitary forces

Other agencies

Former Flags of Indian Armed Forces

(British) Indian Army

(Royal) Indian Air Force

(Royal) Indian Marine/(Royal) Indian Navy

State and union territory flags

At present there are no officially recognised flags for individual

states and union territories of India India is a federalism, federal union comprising 28 federated state, states and 8 union territory, union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 List of districts ...

. No legal prohibitions to prevent states adopting distinctive flags exist in either the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 or the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. In a 1994 case before the

Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judiciary of India, judicial authority and the supreme court, highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final Appellate court, court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also ...

, ''

S. R. Bommai v. Union of India ''S. R. Bommai v. Union of India'' ( 9942 SCR 644 : AIR 1994 SC 1918 : (1994)3 SCC1) is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India, where the Court discussed at length provisions of Article 356 of the Constitution of India and relate ...

'', the Supreme Court declared that there is no prohibition in the Constitution of India for a state to have its own flag. However, a state flag should not dishonour the national flag. The

Flag code of India The Flag Code of India is a set of laws, practices and conventions that apply to the display of the Flag of India, national flag of India. Flag Code of India, 2002, has been divided into three parts. Part I of the code contains a general descri ...

also permits other flags to be flown with the

Flag of India The national flag of India, Colloquialism, colloquially called Tiraṅgā (the tricolour), is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag, the colours being of India Saffron (color)#Political & religious uses, saffron, white and Variations of gree ...

, but not on the same flag pole or in a superior position to the national flag.

Former official state flags

The state of

Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory since 2019 * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019 * Jammu and Kashmir (prin ...

had an officially recognised state flag between 1952 and 2019 under the special status granted to the state by

Article 370 of the Constitution of India Article 370 of the Indian constitution gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, a region located in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and part of the larger region of Kashmir which has been the subject of a dispute between India, ...

Proposed state flags

Flags have been proposed for Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, but neither were officially adopted.

Banners of the states and union territories

When a distinctive banner is required to represent a state or union territory, the emblem of the state or union territory is usually displayed on a white or blue field.

Evolution of flags

Indian polities

Colonial India

British rule in India

= Princely states

French India

Portuguese India

Dutch India

Danish India

Swedish India

Austrian India

Indian independence movement

Flags used in the Indian independence movement

Proposed flags

Dominion of India

, , 1947–present , ,

National flag of India The national flag of India, colloquially called Tiraṅgā (the tricolour), is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag, the colours being of India saffron, white and India green; with the , a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It wa ...

, , A horizontal

tricolour A triband is a vexillological style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag. These stripes may be two or three colours, and may be charged with an emblem in the middle stripe. Not all tribands are tricolour flags, which requires t ...

of saffron at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom. In the centre is a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, known as the

Ashoka Chakra The Ashoka Chakra (Transl: Ashoka's wheel) is an Indian symbol which is a depiction of the dharmachakra (English: "wheel of dharma"). It is so-called because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka the Great, most prominent among which is ...

Political flags

National parties

House Flags

Sports

Culture and Religion

Educational Institutions

Sainik Schools The Sainik Schools () are a system of Military high schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society () under Ministry of Defence (MoD). They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India ...

Central Universities

Notes

References

External links

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