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The National Flag of India was unfolded by Madame Bhikaji Cama at _____________ in 1907.
A. India House, London
B. International Socialist Conference Stuttgart
C. Vande Mataram Office at San Francisco
D. Indian Workers Meet Vancouver

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> The National Flag of India, with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-speaker wheel, in navy blue at its middle, is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of Indian saffron, white and Indian green.
> It was adopted in its present form at the meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947 and became the formal flag of the Dominican Republic of India on 15 August 1947.
> The flag is based on the Swaraj flag, the flag of the National Congress of India designed by Pingali Venkayya.

Complete answer:
The partition of Bengal (1905) resulted in the implementation of a new flag reflecting the Indian independence movement, which aimed to unite the multitude of castes and races within the region. The flag of Vande Mataram, part of the nationalist Swadeshi movement, was depicted in Western heraldic fashion by Indian religious symbols. On the upper green band depicting the eight provinces, the tricolour flag featured eight white lotuses, a sun and a crescent on the bottom red band, and the Vande Mataram slogan on the central yellow band in Hindi. In Calcutta, the flag was launched without any ceremony, and the unveiling was only barely covered by the newspapers. The flag was not covered either in contemporary legislative or political reports, but was used at the Indian National Congress annual session. The flag was first hoisted in Calcutta by Sachindra Prasad Bose in 1906 and then in 1907. In 1907, at the International Socialist Conference in Stuttgart, Madame Bhikaji Cama unfurled the first tricolour Indian National Flag (Germany) that had orange, saffron, and red stripes. Red represented power, triumph in saffron, and boldness and excitement stood for green.
In 1921, Gandhi first suggested a flag to the Indian National Congress. On 15 August 1947, a few days before India became independent, the specially assembled Constituent Assembly agreed that all parties and groups would adopt the flag of India. A changed version of the Swaraj flag was chosen; the tricolour remained the same as saffron, white and green. However the charkha, representing the everlasting wheel of justice, was replaced by the Ashoka Chakra. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the philosopher who later became India's first vice president and second president, explained the adopted flag and defined its meaning as follows:
The Saffron or the Bhagwa signifies renunciation or disinterest. Our leaders ought to be disregardful of financial benefits and commit themselves to their task. The white in the centre is light, the direction of reality that directs our actions. The green reflects our relationship to (the) soil, our connection to the plant life here, on which all other life relies.
The wheel of the rule of dharma is the "Ashoka Chakra" in the middle of white. The controlling philosophy of those who operate under this banner should be the reality or satya, dharma or goodness.

The wheel again denotes rotation and depicts the energy of a peaceful process. In stagnation, there is death. In movement, there is life. India cannot fight progress anymore, and it must go on and move forward.

Therefore, the correct answer is B

Note:
As of 2020, there are no formally recognized flags for the individual states or union territories of India. There are no legislative restrictions in either the Emblems and Titles (Prevention of Inappropriate Use) Act, 1950, or the Prevention of Threats to National Honour Act, 1971, to discourage states adopting distinctive flags.

Mahatma Gandhi in his own words: “It will be necessary for us Indians Muslims, Christians Jews, Parsis, and all others to whom India is their home-to recognize a common flag to live and to die for”.