00984pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001500040245005900055260000900114300001400123362001100137520065000148650001800798773003400816180718b2008   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aJha, Sadan  aThe Indian National Flag as a site of daily plebiscite  c2008  ap.102-11.  a25 Oct  aThis paper attempts to understand the politics that go into the making of various discourses and ways of looking at one representational site, the tricolour. It also addresses the question of how to read this symbolic space as a contested field and analyses the "cultural practices" underlying political questions in colonial and post-colonial India. The author explores three historical periods in the history of the national flag - the flag satyagraha (1922-23), the constituent assembly debate on the design of the flag and the period between 1997 and 2002 when important decisions regarding the use of the tricolour were taken. - Reproduced.  aNational Flag  aEconomic and Political Weekly