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    Class 12: Fine Arts Unit: 3 - National Flag of India & Its Symbolic Significance

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    CLASS 12 : FINE ARTS

    UNIT : 3 -NATIONAL FLAG OF INDIA & ITS SYMBOLIC


    SIGNIFICANCE

    INDIAN NATIONAL FLAG : EVOLUTION

    FIRST : AUGUST 7, 1906

    The first national flag in India is said to have been hoisted


    on August 7, 1906, in the Parsee Bagan Square (Green
    Park) in Calcutta. The flag was composed of three
    horizontal strips of red, yellow and green. The green
    stripe at the top composed with eight white lotuses
    represents the eight provinces of British India. The words
    Vande Mataram was written in deep blue on the middle
    yellow stripe are in Devanagri script, the slogan of the
    Indian National Congress. The red stripe at the bottom
    had the crescent moon and a star in white on right side
    and the sun in white on left side.

    SECOND: 1921

    During the session of the All India Congress Committee


    at Bezwada in 1921 (now Vijayawada) an Andhra youth
    Pingali Venkayya prepared a flag and took it to
    Gandhiji. It was made up of two colours-red and green-
    representing the two major communities i.e. Hindus and
    Muslims.

    Gandhiji suggested the addition of a white strip to


    represent the remaining communities of India and the
    spinning wheel to symbolise progress of the Nation.

    THIRD: JULY 22, 1947

    On July 22, 1947, the Constituent Assembly adopted


    it as Free India National Flag. After the advent of
    Independence, the colours and their significance remained
    the same as horizontal tricolour — deep saffron at the
    top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom.
    Only the Dharma Charkha of Emperor Asoka was adopted
    in place of the spinning wheel on white middle stripe of

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    the flag. The Dharma Charkha is in deep blue consisting with 24 spokes.

    SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE :- (VERY IMPORTANT)

    Saffron: Courage and Sacrifice

    White: Truth and Peace

    Green: Faith and chivalry

    Dharma charka (The Wheel of Law): Progress of our Nation

    24 Spokes in Dharma charka: 24 hours progress

    CONTRIBUTION OF INDIAN ARTISTS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL


    FREEDOM MOVEMENT

    On the rising of nationalist movement which was looking for art


    as a vehicle for spreading the idea of Swaraj. Abanindranath
    Tagore amboded with the high political feeling of that time in the
    form of BHARAT MATA. A woman was painted like a Hindu deity
    however instead of the divine attributes she carries in her four
    hands the emblem of the common men’s dream. A piece of cloth,
    a manuscript, a branch of paddy rice and a rudraksha garland
    holding in her hands. She has a hello behind her head and a
    Lotus bloom at her feet.

    In 1938 Mahatma Gandhi invited Nandalal Bose to decorate the


    Congress pavilion at Haripura session. Nandalal Bose design the
    Congress village decorate the huts of volunteers with colourful
    posters.

    These are depicting the life of common Bengali villagers. Earlier


    Mahatma Gandhi had requested Nandalal to set up an art
    exhibition at the Lucknow session in 1936. Also decorated the township Faizpur Congress
    session in 1937. These brought him close contact with Indian nationalist movement.

    The greatest contribution of the artist was spreading the idea of educated people in their rich
    cultural heritage; awaken them away from the thoughtless British art and western cultural
    influencers. Thus the founder of Bengal School succeeded in bring the painters, sculptors,
    poets and musician in the mainstream of nationalist movement.

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