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Indian states officially do not have flags of their own, except for Jammu and Kashmir. However, some unofficial flags have been reported:

• Manipur: four horizontal bands of yellow, dark blue, red and green (very different from the flag of the princely state)
• Mizoram: the same (or very similar) to Iceland (reported in the Flag Bulletin)
• Andra Pradesh: green with a map of the state in yellow in the center.
• Assam: red with two white Gurkhas poniards crossed in the center

It seems that the status of "unofficial state flag" should be revised. They are more likely to be revendicative or seperatist flags
Ivan Sache, 16 Sep 1999

I can remember reading somewhere (a long time ago) that all the commissioners of Indian states have saffron flags depicting the Indian COA (3 lion piller) in red above an inscription of the name of the state in ? language.

Nitesh Dave, 7 Jun 1999

Even more fluid than unofficial flags for existing states are existing flags for unoffical states: the map "possible new states" gives tantalizing notions in this field:

• Ladakh: the eastern portion of Jammu and Kashmir;
• Uttarakhand: that bit of Uttar Pradesh between Nepal and Himachal Pradesh;
• Gorkhaland: that bit of West Bengal between Sikkim, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan;
• Bodoland: the neighbouring bit of Assam;
• Jharkhand: the southern 1/3 of Bihar;
• Chhatisgarh: the inland half of Orissa;
• Telegana: the NW 1/3 of Andhra Pradesh;
• Vidarbha: the southern 1/4 of Mandhya Pradesh;
• Vindhya Pradesh: the southern 1/5 of Uttar Pradesh;

Saffron charged with the lions of Sarnath above name of state in Devanagri script.
Nitesh Dave, 19 Feb 2000

Summarised from "Flags of the World" (EMC Barraclough 1971):
During British rule the governors of the following 'provinces' has special flags, "saffron with the Edward crown above