Could you imagine life without sphincters?  No no. I keep those private.  No, she really does because sometimes I'll clear my throat cuz I was eating or something and make like a sound And she'll look at me like Anyways Today we got a video It's called the true history behind the Indian flag. Oh, I hope this is true because if it's not there's gonna be a lot of people sound It's don't get mad at us. Don't blame us if the information isn't correct We are just here to react. We're watching this with you. We've never seen this before and It might surprise you to know we're unfamiliar with the history of the Indian flag. Yes I did see a little different in in the rocket boys, right? Yeah, I was above the time period for that. You know when it came out. Yeah, so it was interesting Yeah, anyways, go out check out our rocket boys review, please. Yes Here on FD facts we've made tons of videos about countries and other places and people and more Now in this episode, I'm gonna be taking a look at a national flag It's a new area where we're venturing in that allows us to give you more facts about the amazing countries of this world A large portion of our fan base is from India. So we decided to start there How's it going everybody? My name is Leroy Kenton and I'm gonna dive into some facts about the Indian flag You know give you the history behind it and why it's so meaningful to Indians today Now before I continue just have to do a couple big shout outs to some of my brothers from India Here we have not cool from India. Just enjoying the night out saying great work He loves the videos and here we have another big supporter of FCD facts. Suraj. He says I'm watching all the way from India Keep going brother. It looks like you're in a cricket stadium. I think it's great meeting all of you I've learned so much talking with you guys on social media And if you guys want your pictures featured in an upcoming video send it to me on Instagram The link to that is down below for the Indian people the national flag has great Significance and meaning as it symbolizes the struggles it took for India to become an independent nation It also serves as a symbol of unity to show that despite being of different faiths and religions That's why the Indian people at the core are all one now the current Indian national flag was designed by Pangali Venkaya He was an agriculturist and an Indian freedom fighter from the state of Andhra Pradesh We live from 1876 to 1963 before the British occupied India India used to be made up of different princely states each with their own flags now this change after a revolt in 1857 the British introduced a flag to represent their greater Indian territories and that flag was used from 1858 to 1947 now there was a band that was placed on Flying the Indian flag that led to the use of the Sriraj flag as a sign of protest in India during the freedom struggle now This flag was a tri-colour rectangle with a chakra or spinning wheel at its center after India's Independence many other designs of the flag were considered however that same tricolored flag with the chakra was adopted in its current State as a national flag of India on July 22nd 1947 but how exactly did we get to the current version of the Indian flag of course it didn't happen overnight So let's go back in history. I'm gonna give you a little bit more details on the process Ever national Indian flag commonly called the Kolkata flag looked quite different from what it looks like today It had many religious symbols and had eight roses on it But I'm meaning I praise you mother it's believed to have been first raised on August 7th 1906 at Parsi big and square Green Park in Kolkata now known as Kolkata The second version of the flag came with some more modifications and was raised by Madame comma in Paris in 1907 another flag was used in the year of 1917 during what was known as the home roll movement This flag was raised by the leaders of the movement Luckmania tiller and doctor Annie B sent next up It was a flag of 1921 this flag was endorsed by Mahatma Gandhi Who we probably have to do a video on him one day But anyways he wanted all the communities of India to be represented in the flag and this flag had three colors On the top was white then green and at the bottom it was red white symbolized in minority groups in India Green represented Muslims and the red represented Hindu and Sikh communities The Charca was drawn across all the bands to symbolize the unity However, this was never adopted as an official flag of Congress now shortly after that since not everybody was happy with this Interpretation of the flag a new flag was born, but in a case here We have the version similar to Gandhi's flag called the Saraj flag and this was introduced on the 13th of April 1923 during a procession by local Congress volunteers that commemorated the Jolly Anwala Bag Massacre The Swaraj flag with the spinning wheel designed by Pingali, Venkaya was hoisted now unlike Gandhi's flag the Swaraj flag became the official flag of Congress in 1931 however by then the flag had already become the symbol of the independence movement and finally on July 22nd 1947 it was adopted as a free Indian national flag by the constituent assembly of India The only alteration they made to the flag was to replace the spinning wheel with Emperor Ashoka's Dharma Chakra This flag depicted the wheel of the law that was made by the famous 3rd century BC Indian Emperor Ashoka Now let's take a little bit of a closer look to the meaning of Ashoka's chakra The Ashoka chakra had great historical importance in India It said that after receiving enlightenment or nirvana Lord Buddha met with five of his disciples and preached to them his first sermon describing the Dharma Chakra This was taken by Emperor Ashoka to represent on top of his pillars Now his pillars are a series of columns dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent The Chakra or wheel in the Indian flag has actually been taken from the lion capital of Ashoka Which is a sculpture of four lions standing back-to-back in Sarnath India So now we talked about Ashoka's Dharma Chakra and the history behind that Let's look at some of the other aspects of the flag the flag consists of three equal sized horizontal stripes The saffron color represents courage and sacrifice It indicates letting go of any biases or egos and encourages people to unite and become one The white represents truth and purity according to Indian scriptures and philosophy The color white is also used to symbolize cleanliness and knowledge The green represents peace and prosperity according to Indian philosophy The color green is a festive color that symbolizes life and happiness at the center of the middle stripes Here we see the Ashoka chakra in navy blue to represent the ideas of law and Dharma as it does on the Ashoka pillar The Ashoka chakra was chosen because it symbolizes the laws of Dharma or righteousness The color of the Ashoka chakra navy blue was chosen because it represents a universal color It's a color of the sky. It's a color of the ocean The 24 spokes of the wheel represent 24 hours of every day It also represents the 24 dharma rishis or saints of the hindu religion Now India keeps their flag at a very high standard There's a lot of strict guidelines on how the flag can actually be used And there's only one licensed flag production and supply unit in India The guidelines about the design and specifications are decided by the BIS or the Bureau of Indian Standards And yeah, the Kadi Development and Village Industries Commission is the only licensed flag production and supply unit located in India They're the only ones who are allowed to allocate flag production to other regional groups And more specifically, they're based in Hubli, Karnataka, India The Indian flag must also be made of Kadi cloth, which is a special type of hand spun cloth made of silk or cotton Kadi was made popular by Mahatma Gandhi and the flag was handcrafted to honor him Now guys, I'm not even kidding about this. The guidelines get even more strict Every roll of cloth that would be used to create an Indian flag is actually sent to a laboratory to test the quality Also, the flag must never touch the ground or water. It cannot be used as drapery in any form The flag may not be placed upside down. It plays vertically. The saffron edge should be on the left Until the year 2001 private citizens were only allowed to hoist the flag on national holidays This law was changed when a citizen filed a suit against the court arguing that every Indian citizen Had a right to fly their national flag And I mean rightfully so because people want to be free to just wave their flags whenever because they are proud of their country, right? Now the man that fought for this right was Nathneen Jindal And the courts found his arguments valid and lifted the ban on january 26 2002 Now every Indian citizen has the right to hoist the Indian flag on any given day as long as they maintain the Dignity and respect and honor of the flag that concludes this episode of ftd facts That was your brief history on the Indian flag. Please let me know down below in the comments section What flag is good a lot of information and there's a lot of info again If any food was wrong, please let us know that it was wrong in a kind way that because we didn't make a video Just Just letting you know, but yeah, that was a lot of information that I I no clue about and it's similar. I figured most countries have a flag law. Yeah, absolutely I'm sure they do we have a flag law here. Yeah, technically You're not even supposed to wear our flag is clothing But the patriots that love the flag a lot don't seem to listen to that part of the flag code at all Yep There's a reason if you see on the military on their shoulder the flag will look as if it's backwards Um, and that's correct me if i'm wrong But my understanding the reason you have that is that that comes from the fact that If you were holding the flag That's what the flag would look like if you were advancing forward And it's supposed to symbolize the fact that the military will never retreat. Yeah, pretty sure. Yeah Um, but yeah, so but yeah, same thing about don't let it touch the ground Yeah, if you see I'll point it out because we'll be dry anytime we see a flag when we're driving around I'll go America and There was one just recently I saw and I pointed it out and I I said to Drani said they need They need to fix that flag because the whole bottom there's a whole bottom part of it that was torn And that's you're not supposed to fly a flag that's torn and tattered. You know, it's weird other countries About other countries. No other countries thing about the United States. Would they think about us our session with the flag? No, because it doesn't happen everybody has a stuff but You go to another country may obviously there's exclusions to every rule, but the fact there's flags on houses There's flags on our schools the fact that we flag every morning to a flag It's very strange to other countries. Yeah, I could see how much it would be how much we uh, love our flag But yeah, it was really cool because I do love seeing the history of flags I do too because they chain it's but I mean not anymore. Um, but they used to like change the American flag changed A lot 10 billion times. Well, and it could change at any time. I'm sure you guys know this But yeah, the stars the stars all stand for the states So anytime there was a change in states the the the stars change So it's a like the constitution although there'd be constitutional people who wouldn't agree with what I'm about to say It's a living document. Yeah, so the flag itself is alive and can have and I don't mean that literally It's the sense of that anytime the soul of america anytime There's a change that that could change the stripes will never change the number of the stripes the size and the colors Yeah, that won't change But yeah, it's I think the last time it was changed is in the 50s with hawaii Yeah, correct hawaii and alaska were the last two to join and now what corbin and I are hoping is they'll get rid of texas And at Puerto Rico and we don't have to even change the flag mister Uh, technically we should bat at least two dc you should have a statehood And uh, Puerto Rico should be a state if they want to be yeah That's a whole different idea. But yeah, but yeah, it was really cool. I always thought um It was just like a farming like one of those Um things people for weaving. I thought that was what the the center of it wasn't the indian flags I probably thought that at first as well. I thought um, I think the indian flag is really clean I like how it's just the three color and then the circle the Whatever I kept on yeah a couple in there were like wow That's so there's a lot going on and there's some national flags that there's a lot going on But state flags too, it's it's really cool because of the meaning There's always this great intentionality behind it and if that's a trend and Human beings that I love is that the that symbolism has meaning. Yeah a deep meaning for everybody. So that was cool In johnny. Yeah, are there state flags for every state or no, no, it's just one indian flag and states don't have their own Have flags, okay You know every state in the united states has their own flag Yeah, yeah, the coolest one is actually believe it or not. I think uh, south carolina I think south carolina. I can't picture its flag blue with a palm tree in a moon Oh, I would have never recognized. I do like california's flag as well. I do too But I feel like most of the states flags here are just and one little thing about flags as well We'll rip on texas once more Um in america. Oh my god every state except texas Is supposed to fly their flag a little lower than america because even though we are the united states And have individual rights as states we all recognize that we're united as one And that we look to the national flag as the one that we held the highest But texas has no problem flying their flag at the same height. That's the one so say it again texas is a cult the national National flag. Anyways, that was really cool. I really enjoyed that Uh, if the one's again if any information was wrong, please let us know that it was wrong And what the correct information is and take it out on someone else and not me Let us know down below


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