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Indian Flag Proposals

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It should be noted that there are, today, elements within India (as elsewhere?) who reject or challenge the secular state and call for a new flag, taking out the green and white (and what they symbolize?) and going to some form of all-orange flag, to represent a "Hindu India."

Ed Haynes, 10 April 1996

Musings on Indian flags (some mild political commentary follows):

Yesterday I finished reading Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, and I can see how he managed to offend Hindu fundamentalists this time. Such is the lot of taking a "moderate" position -- at any rate, he mentions the Indian flag a couple of times and how the leader of the fundamentalists wants to remove the white and the green from the national flag and have it all be solely Hindu saffron. Nice way of putting it, I thought.
I also finished reading Leonard Moseley's The Last Days of the British Raj a couple of weeks ago and came across this passage:

"Sir John Colville, Governor of Bombay, let it be known that he would refuse to stay in his post as Governor after the transfer of power unless he were allowed to fly a Union Jack or some sort of flag with a Union Jack. (Sir John did stay on after Independence and stoutly flew the Union Jack on all British occasions.)
"In the case of the flags for the new Dominions, the Viceroy had not been inactive. Among his hobbies, along with the compilation of his family tree, was heraldry and design. He himself sketched and prepared the design for the flags of both Pakistan and India. One was based on the flag