SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 22 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 21 of 98

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Who is credited with hoisting the first version of the Indian flag at the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907?

(a)Aruna Asaf Ali
(b)Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
(c)Bhikaji Cama
(d)Sarojini Naidu

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Bhikaji Cama unfurled what she called the 'Flag of Indian Independence' at the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart on 22 August 1907.

The flag had green, yellow and red bands, eight lotuses for the provinces of British India, a crescent moon and a sun, and 'Vande Mataram' in Devanagari.

Madame Cama, Stuttgart, 1907 → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Aruna Asaf Ali — Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, on 9 August 1942, as the Quit India Movement began. Different flag, city and year.
(b)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay — Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay is remembered for reviving Indian handicrafts and handloom after independence, and in 1926 became the first woman to run for a legislative seat in India.
(d)
Sarojini Naidu — Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress (1925) and India's first woman Governor, of the United Provinces, in 1947. Not the Stuttgart flag.

Concept

Bhikaji Cama (1861-1936) worked for Indian independence from Europe. She supported Shyamji Krishna Varma's Indian Home Rule Society and co-founded the Paris Indian Society.

The flag she raised at Stuttgart was co-designed by her, based on the Calcutta Flag. It is one of the early national flags that came before the Tricolour adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 22 July 1947.

Stuttgart, 1907 is the whole clue. Aruna Asaf Ali's flag-hoisting came 35 years later, in Bombay in 1942.

Key facts

22 August 1907: Bhikaji Cama unfurled the 'Flag of Indian Independence' at the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart.
The flag had green, yellow and red bands with 'Vande Mataram' in Devanagari.
The original flag is displayed at the Maratha and Kesari Library, Pune.
9 August 1942: Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay.

Study next

Evolution of the Indian national flag up to the 1947 TricolourIndian revolutionaries abroad: India House, Shyamji Krishna Varma, the Paris Indian SocietyWomen in the national movement: Aruna Asaf Ali, Sarojini Naidu, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Common traps

Crediting the Stuttgart flag to Aruna Asaf Ali: hers was the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank in 1942.
Calling Cama's flag the Tricolour: it had green, yellow and red bands and 'Vande Mataram', not the 1947 design.

Asked as a who-did-it on one dated event abroad, with every decoy a woman of the national movement.

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