What did the eight lotuses on the tricolour flag designed during the Swadeshi Movement represent ?
Eight provinces of British India
The first national flag of India, often called the Calcutta Flag, was hoisted on 7 August 1906 at Parsee Bagan Square in Calcutta during the Swadeshi Movement against the Partition of Bengal.
It had three horizontal bands of green, yellow and red; the top green band carried eight white lotuses, which stood for the eight provinces of British India at that time.
The middle yellow band bore the words Vande Mataram, and the red band carried a sun and a crescent moon, so the lotuses represented provinces, not princely states, languages or geographical regions.
Hence, Eight provinces of British India.
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