Flags of states of India

This is a gallery with flags of states of India.

Banners of the states and union territories

As of 2023, there are no officially recognised flags for the individual states or union territories of India. No legal prohibitions to prevent states adopting distinctive flags exist in either the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950, or the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. In a 1994 case before the Supreme Court of India, S. R. Bommai v. Union of India, the Supreme Court declared that there is no prohibition in the Constitution of India for a state to have its own flag. However, a state flag should not dishonour the national flag. The Flag code of India also permits other flags to be flown with the Flag of India, but not on the same flag pole or in a superior position to the national flag.

When a distinctive banner is required to represent a state or union territory, the emblem of the state or union territory is usually displayed on a white field.

[[Image:|border|400x100px|Goa]]

Goa

Gujarat

Haryana

[[Image:|border|400x100px|Himachal Pradesh]]

[[Image:|border|400x100px|Nagaland]]

[[Image:|border|400x100px|Telangana]]

[[Image:|border|400x100px|West Bengal]]

West Bengal

Union territories

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

[[Image:|border|400x100px|Chandigarh]]

Chandigarh

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Delhi

Jammu and Kashmir

Ladakh

[[Image:|border|400x100px|Lakshadweep]]

Lakshadweep

Puducherry

Proposed state flags

The Government of Tamil Nadu proposed a design for the Flag of Tamil Nadu in 1970.

The Government of Karnataka proposed a design for the Flag of Karnataka in 2018 based on the traditional yellow-red Kannada bicolour. The new tricolour flag with the central white band and emblem, was designed to distance itself from regional political parties and emulate the structure of the Indian Tricolour. In August 2019, the Government of Karnataka announced it was no longer officially pursuing the proposal for an official state flag.

Karnataka
(proposed in 2018)

Tamil Nadu
(proposed in 1970)

Former de jure state flags

The state of Jammu and Kashmir had an officially recognised state flag between 1952 and 2019 under the special status granted to the state by Article 370 of the Constitution of India.

Jammu and Kashmir
(1936-1952)

Jammu and Kashmir
(1952-2019)

Autonomous administrative areas

Bodoland Territorial Region

North Cachar Hills Autonomous District Council

Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council