Surayya Tyabji

Historian Trevor Royle wrote in his book The Last Days of the Raj that Badruddin Tyabji designed the final form of the current Indian national flag.

Surayya Tyabji made the first copy that flew on Jawahar Lal Nehru's car on the night of independence: By one of those contradictions which run through Indian's history, the national flag was designed by a Muslim, Badr-ud-Din Tyabji.

After much persuasion Gandhi agreed to the verse because the Emperor Asoka was venerated by Hindu and Muslim alike.

The flag which flew on Nehru's car that night had been specially made by Tyabji's wife.

[6] She was married to Badruddin Tyabji, a civil servant and later the Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University.

A tricolour flag of saffron, white and green with a spinning wheel in the centre
Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag The Swaraj flag , officially adopted by the Indian National Congress in 1931
Current national flag of India