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Flag of India is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 14, 2005.

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Date	Process	Result
July 6, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
March 1, 2010	Featured article review	Kept
October 15, 2022	Featured article review	Demoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 14, 2004. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the Indian national flag is called Tiranga?
Current status: Former featured article

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Final Design of Indian Flag by Surayya Tyabji was accepted as final design in 1947 by Government of India. 2405:201:6007:20FC:ACE4:1ECB:F66B:905F (talk) 12:01, 10 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Charliehdb (talk) 12:39, 10 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Indian National Flag designed by Suriyya Badruddin tayyab ji . A Hyderabadi Muslim women . ICF officer . First chief justice of Mumbai . Later she also sent to kalapani jail with Abdul hassain safrani for "Jai hind" slogan. ^[1] 2406:7400:63:98C3:6D93:5420:6295:49E7 (talk) 07:05, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:22, 15 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Please set to "none" as short description per WP:SDNONE. 217.219.74.130 (talk) 22:55, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done TylerBurden (talk) 14:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Mrs. Surayya Tyabji (1919–1978) was an Indian artist who assisted in creating the current Indian national flag by adding the Ashoka Chakra from the Lion Capital of Ashoka, replacing the Charkha on the 1931 flag of the Indian National Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surayya_Tyabji Amarfarooqkhan (talk) 13:50, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. TylerBurden (talk) 14:31, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Description of the flag

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Can someone add the the following to this. Is there a reason behind the three colors. I was in the impression that they show Hindu(Saffron)/Christianity(white)/Islam(green) of Indian religions. what is the significance of the 24 spokes in the Ashoka Chakra? Jeyapal (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

the 24 spokes of the Ashoka Chakra (wheel) represents the states of India and the color blue is associated with life Sardarshahar40 (talk) 14:10, 3 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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