History Resolved

F lags are not just a piece of cloth with multiple designs but instead, it is an emotion that binds together the people of a particular nation irrespective of their religion, caste, race, or language.   For, we Indians our Flag is probably the most important thing that matters to us and none of us can ever dream of doing something which will disrespect the flag. The History of our Flag is as diverse as the people of this Holy Land. Let us go through this vast journey to know, How our National Flag evolved through time and, How we got our beloved "Tiranga". Calcutta Flag or The Lotus Flag (1906)                                    It was Horizontal Tricolor of Dark Blue, Yellow, and Red. The upper strip of Blue consisted of 8 Stars with an unequal number of points in each of the stars. We probably don't know what these unequal number of points represents. This was basically the result of th...

  A fter being ruled by the foreign powers for more a century, the people of India for the very first time came under the rule of the native rulers around the 3rd century AD with the emergence of the Guptas in the Indo-Gangetic plain of modern-day UP & Bihar. The Kushans who preceded the Guptas as the major power in the subcontinent started to decline due to many reasons. They lost their northwestern dominions to the rising Sassanian Dynasty from Persia in and around 230 AD and at the same time, their eastern dominions in Northern India started to shrink because of the rise in power of their feudatories. Guptas also served under them as their feudatories in the region of modern-day UP & Bihar. The early rulers of the Guptas grabbed the opportunity and started the dynasty that was to dominate the subcontinent for the coming few centuries. The Gupta Empire  The dynasty which came to be known as the Guptas was founded by Sri Gupta. He was then followed by his son Ghatotka...