In the year 1906, in response to the British Government's infamous Bengal Partition Plan, leaders of the time considered creating an Indian flag. He needed to rekindle national consciousness and the spirit of organisation in every Indian citizen through the flag. However, even before this, many different types of flags were popular in India, the most prominent of which was the saffron-coloured flag.
However, keeping in mind the immediate circumstances, Indian leaders considered a new type of flag to unite all religions, sects, and sects, which would become a symbol of resistance to British colonialism.
The partition of Bengal was part of a plan to completely divide India communally. For appeasement, the British government decided to create a separate Muslim majority province, but Surendranath Banerjee writes in his book 'A Nation in Making Bengal' that there was a lack of unity in Bengal at the time. As a result, a flag was designed in which all Indians were represented.
With this in mind, the first tricolour flag of India was created, with eight blooming lotus symbols on a red stripe at the top, Bande Mataram in Devanagari script on yellow in the middle, and green at the bottom. The moon was on the right and the sun was on the left. This flag was designed by Surendranath Banerjee's associates and revolutionaries, Sachindraprasad Ghosh and Sukumar Mitra.
On October 20, 1905, the British Government set the date for the partition of Bengal. As a result, there could not have been a better day to raise India's first flag against the government. Surendranath Banerjee raised the flag for the first time at the University Science College in Bengal.
This flag was also displayed at the All India Congress session in Calcutta in 1907. The Congress session was presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji, but the Congress did not officially accept this flag. In other words, it was not hoisted there. The national outpouring of rage against Bengal's partition was at its peak, and the Congress session was also taking place in Bengal at the same time, so the flag was only given for display.
Meanwhile, this flag's echo reached India House in London. In his book 'Bharater II Freedom Struggle,' revolutionary Dr Bhupendranath Datta tells the story of the Calcutta flag reaching London as follows: "Khasi Rao, the revolutionary brother of Baroda State Army General Madhav Rao, went to Switzerland for military training. He'd brought a replica of the Calcutta flag with him. In Geneva, he met Hemchandra Kanungo."
< .p dir="ltr">Hemchandra Kanungo was an associate of Veer Savarkar. Veer Savarkar sent him and Pandurang Mahadev Senapati to Russia to learn how to make bombs. Understanding the technique for making bombs from there, both of them travelled to India in 1908 and explained the Russian method to Bengali revolutionaries. Names like Barinder Ghos, Prafulla Chakraborty, and Narendra Gusai were among these revolutionaries.According to Hemchandra Kanungo's book 'Bengali Biplob Prachesta,' the red colour of the first strip of the flag hoisted by Surendranath Banerjee in Calcutta, Lotus, Bande Mataram, Sun, and Moon were retained. Instead of yellow and green stripes, saffron and blue colours were used in the rest of the new flag. This flag was created by Hemchandra Kanungo, a revolutionary living in Paris, according to Binoy Jiban Ghosh's 'Revolt of 1905 in Bengal.' Dhananjay Keer, in his book writer, "Madame Cama was sent by Veer Savarkar along with revolutionary Sardar Singh Rana to participate in the International Socialist Congress held on 22 August 1907 in Stuttgart, a city in Germany."
In addition to hoisting the flag, he delivered a speech in which he stated, "The presence of British rule in India is absolutely disastrous and extremely harmful to the interests of Indians." One-fifth of the human race lives in this oppressed country and everyone should cooperate in emancipation from slavery."
Veer Savarkar's unprecedented effort for Indian independence is rarely described in history books. Apart from that, whenever the first flag of India is mentioned, it is only stated that "the idea of the Indian flag first came in the minds of the exiled Indians in England and France in 1906." In a sense, Veer Savarkar's name was deliberately concealed. While everyone knows that during that time period, the Indians or revolutionaries in exile in England and France were led by Shyamji Krishna Varma and then by Veer Savarkar. Veer Savarkar was always associated with the flag hoisted by Madame Cama in Berlin.
In the year 1937, Veer Savarkar, after his release from detention in Ratnagiri, first unfurled this three-coloured original flag (tricolour) of India House at the Ratnagiri Political Conference. In the last week of October 1937, he raised the same flag in Poona.
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