Presidential standard of India

The presidential standard of India was a flag flown by the president of India from 1950 to 1971.

It succeeded the flag of the governor-general of India (used during the 1947–1950 period of the Dominion of India) on 26 January 1950, when India became a republic.

It ceased being used on 15 August 1971, when the president began using the national flag of India.

[1] The standard was a rectangle divided quarterly into blue and red quadrants.

Each quadrant was occupied by a national symbols drawn in gold outline.