The Calcutta Flag (1906)

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  "name": "Calcutta Flag",
  "now": "india",
  "years": "1906",
  "id": "in-calcutta-flag",
  "index": "c/india:1906",
  "title": "The Calcutta Flag (1906)",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#ff0000",
      "cmyk": "0/100/100/0",
      "note": "Hinduism and Buddhism."
    },
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#138808",
      "cmyk": "86/0/94/47",
      "note": "Islam."
    },
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#ffd700",
      "cmyk": "0/16/100/0",
      "note": "Hinduism and Buddhism."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Calcutta Flag (1906) was one of the earliest Indian nationalist flags, featuring three horizontal stripes of green, yellow, and red, with various emblems including the sun, crescent, and lotus\n - Unfurled on 7 August 1906 at Parsee Bagan Square in Calcutta, it was designed to unify Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists in the independence movement\n - **Construction:** three horizontal bands — green (top, Islam), yellow (middle, Hinduism and Buddhism), and red (bottom)\n - Eight lotus flowers on the top, sun and crescent on the middle band\n - Ratio approximately 2:3",
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  },
  "countryData": {
    "name": "India",
    "officialName": "Calcutta Flag (1906)",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "cs": "india-hist/in-calcutta-flag.cs.svg",
  "trivia": "- Early Indian independence flag used during the independence movement\n - Represented the aspirations of Indian nationalists\n - Evolved into the modern flag after independence",
  "article": "india-hist/in-calcutta-flag.md",
  "_name": "Calcutta Flag",
  "_namespace": "india-hist",
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