The Indian flag in 1906 (during the anti-partition agitation) had three colors: red, yellow, and green. This flag was hoisted in Kolkata at the Parsee Bagan Square. It had eight lotuses in a red strip on the top, a sun and crescent in a green strip on the bottom, and Vande Mataram in Hindi in the middle yellow band. The tricolor (saffron, white, green) came later.