our national symbols

1. OUR NATIONAL SYMBOLS
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3. OUR NATIONAL FLAG
The National Flag of India is a horizontal
rectangular tricolour of India saffron, white and
India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke
wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted
in its present form during a meeting of the
Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, and
it became the official flag of the Dominion of
India on 15 August 1947. The flag was
subsequently retained as that of the Republic of
India. In India, the term "tricolour" almost always
refers to the Indian national flag. The flag is
based on the Swaraj flag, a flag of the Indian
National Congress designed by Pingali
Venkayya.

4. OUR NATIONAL EMBLEM
The State Emblem of India is the national
emblem of India and is used by the union
government, many state governments and
government agencies. The emblem consisted
of a representation of the Lion Capital of
Ashoka at Sarnath enclosed within a
rectangular frame. The emblem is an
adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka, a
statue from 280 BCE. The statue is a
dimensional emblem showing four lions. It
became the emblem of the Dominion of India
in December 1947, and later the emblem of
the Republic of India.

5. OUR NATIONAL ANIMAL -
ROYAL BENGAL TIGER
Royal Bengal Tiger is the National Animal of
India. The scientific name of this animal is
Panthera Tigris. It was conferred the status in
April 1973. This article throws light on the
reasons behind declaring the Royal Bengal
Tiger as the National Animal of India and
some interesting facts about the Tiger. Tiger
was picked as the National animal of India
because of its elegance, strength, agility, and
colossal power. On 1st April 1973,
Government launched Project Tiger to save
tigers. It was launched from the Jim Corbett
National Park in Uttarakhand.

6. OUR NATIONAL BIRD –
PEACOCK
The Indian peafowl also known as the
common peafowl, and blue peafowl, is a
peafowl species native to the Indian
subcontinent. It has been introduced to many
other countries. Indian peafowl display a
marked form of sexual dimorphism. The
peacock is brightly coloured, with a
predominantly blue fan-like crest of spatula-
tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for
the long train made up of elongated upper-tail
covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots.
These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and
quivered in a display during courtship.

7. OUR NATIONAL FLOWER –
LOTUS
National Emblem of India which was adopted
on 26th January 1950 stands on full-bloomed
inverted Lotus flower showing the
importance of the flower.
Lotus epitomizes beauty and signifies non-
attachment Despite growing in dirt, it smells
of myrrh which is taken as a message to
humankind. Lotus that symbolizes spirituality,
fruitfulness, wealth, knowledge and
illumination is the National flower of India.
This essay provides interesting information
and facts on lotus.

8. OUR NATIONAL FRUIT –
MANGO
Mango is an edible stone fruit produced by
the tropical tree Mangifera indica which is
believed to have originated from the region
between northwestern Myanmar, Bangladesh,
and northeastern India. M. indica has been
cultivated in South and Southeast Asia since
ancient times resulting in two distinct types
of modern mango cultivars: the "Indian type"
and the "Southeast Asian type". Other species
in the genus Mangifera also produce edible
fruits that are also called "mangoes", the
majority of which are found in the Malesian
ecoregion.

9. OUR NATIONAL TREE –
BANYAN TREE
A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that
begins its life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that
grows on another plant, when its seed
germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree
or edifice. "Banyan" often specifically denotes
Ficus benghalensis (the "Indian banyan"),
which is the national tree of India, though the
name has also been generalized to
denominate all figs that share a common life
cycle and used systematically in taxonomy to
denominate the subgenus Urostigma.

10. OUR NATIONAL GAME –
HOCKEY
It is an ancient game that is played in India
for years. Also, the game is always played
with a stick and a ball. Before 1272 BC it was
played in Ireland and during 600 BC ancient
Greece used to play it. Around the world,
there are many variations of the game
known by the name ice hockey, field hockey,
street hockey, sled hockey, and roller
hockey. Hockey is a sport in which two
teams play against each other by trying to
manoeuvre a ball or a puck into the
opponent's goal using a hockey stick. There
are many types of hockey such as bandy,
field hockey, ice hockey and rink hockey.

11. Jana-gana-mana adhinayaka, jaya he
Bharata-bhagya-vidhata
Punjab sindhu gujarat maratha
Dravida utkala banga
Vindhya himachala yamuna ganga
Uchala jaladhi taranga
Tava shubha name jage
Tava shubha asisa mage
Gahe tava jaya gatha.
Jana gana mangala dayaka jaya he
Bharata bhagya vidhata
Jaya he jaya he jaya he
Jaya jaya jaya jaya he .
Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India.
It was originally composed as Bharoto Bhagyo
Bidhata in Bengali by polymath Rabindranath
Tagore. The first stanza of the song Bharoto
Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent
Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24
January 1950.A formal rendition of the national
anthem takes approximately 52 seconds. A
shortened version consisting of the first and last
lines (and taking about 20 seconds to play) is
also staged occasionally. It was first publicly
sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta (now
Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress.
Our National Anthem -
Jana Gana Mana

12. OUR NATIONAL SONG -
VANDE MATARAM
The National song of India, Vande Mataram is
considered as the foundation of encouragement
to the people in their struggle for freedom.
former President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad,
on January 24, 1950, came up with a declaration
in the Constituent Assembly that the song
Vande Mataram, which had played.The song was
a part of Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s most
famous novel Anand Math (1882) which is set in
the events of Sannyasi rebellion.The first
translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s novel
Anand Math, comprising the poem Vande
Mataram, into English was done by Nares
Chandra Sen-Gupta.