Flag of India painted on door

Like many other countries, the flag of India displays a symbol and colors significant to it. The saffron refers to cremation, the preferred means of disposing of human corpses among Hindus (more than 80% of the country's population). The 24-point chakra in the center is a symbol of the renown emperor Asoka, who unified much of the country in the 3rd century BCE and set out boundary markers with this symbol on them.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2000-12

image/jpeg

Image

PSC001

Box 1

psc001_psc0003

psc001_psc0003.tif

Indian

Unknown

2007-06-11

Welch-Ludwig Collection

PSC001