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Jammu and Kashmir

Ed Haynes, 1996-04-03

Some facts
Flag use today

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Some facts

1931 area 85,885 square miles
1931 population 3,646,000

Ed Haynes, 1996-04-03

Flag use in Jammu and Kashmir

In Indian Kashmir, the Indian flag is used. In Pakistani Kashmir ("Azad Ksahmir') I believe the Pakistani flag is used most frequently.
Ed Haynes

I have seen some designs of Kashmir's flags: first the flag of the indigenous state; second, the flag of the state (?) in the 1970's (the design comes from the Catalan Encyclopedia and the book by W. Smith); third, two flags probably nationalist flags, that I have seen on TV in the last two years:

Green, red, green horizontal
Green over red horizontal, and, in the hoist, a polygon figure in white
A triangular design, similar to the Philippine flag.
A flag, probably with a 1:3 ratio, the top (2/5) divided in vertically yellow and green and in the green a crescent and star in white; in the bottom (3/5) bars white and green, green being the bottom bar.

These flags are illustrated below:

Jaume Oll�

I have two flags attributed to Kashmir, one for Azad Kashmir and the other for Jammu and Kashmir. I assume both are unofficial. Both are as described previously:

Azad Kashmir

Nathan Augustine, 1996-09-23

Some Kashmiri separatists use a flag of green and yellow alternating horizontal stripes, 15 in total, I think. There is a canton of plain yellow, which I think looks most odd - surely cantons should have something in them?! I have no information on symbolism, usage or status. I presume the status is wholly unofficial; Indian and Pakistani flags are presumably official in the parts of Kashmir respectively occupied by those two nations.
Stuart Notholt, 1996-09-22 Smith calls the Azad Kashmir flag above Azad Jammu and Kashmir and gives it as a province of Pakistan, with proportions of 23:31. I don't know that any other flag in Smith's books is unofficial and therfore I presume that both these flags have some official status.
Zeljko Heimer, 1996-09-24

Jammu Kashmir

Nathan Augustine, 1996-09-23

India has (had?) a flag for Jammu & Kashmir. This was red, to symbolize labour, with three white vertical stripes in the hoist (which do not run the whole height of the flag). These stand for the three districts of the region. In the hoist, also in white, a stylized agricultural implement (?) A plough (?)
Stuart Notholt, 1996-09-22

I don't know what the device is, but I also believe it is a plough of some kind, even if it looks to me more like a weird kind of iron. Smith gives this as a state flag, with 2:3 proportions, so this wouldn't be a flag used by the Kashmiris, but by the regional government.
Zeljko Heimer, 1996-09-24

Kashmir, because of its special status under the Indian Constitution (it is, for example, the only province where non-natives of the province are prohibited from owning real estate), is the ONLY Indian province with a flag. Princely State flags (as discussed elsewhere) continue to be used in approptiate areas, without ANY official sanction. The National Flag is THE national flag and Indian law and custom are ADAMANT on this point.
The plough is, by the way, really a plough. Really.
Ed Haynes, 1996-09-24