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Jodhpur/Marwar (India)

image by Jarig Bakker

Source: Ziggiotto (1998).

Some facts
Variant flags
Jodhpur cavalry lance pennant
Coat of Arms

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Some facts

PRINCIPALITY OF JODHPUR - MARWAR
Princely States of Rajputana, Rajputana Residency, Present-day Rajasthan
17 Gun Salute
Area: 93, 424 sq.km
Acceded to the Union of India on April 7, 1949
History: Marwar State was founded about 1210. with its capital of Mandore. The new capital of Jodhpur was founded about 1450 and Marwar was later renamed after the new capital

Flag:
A grand-child of Jayakandra, Prince of Kanya-Kubja (1173-1194), founded in 1210 the principality of Jodhpur or Marwar. The state flag of Jodhpur-Marwar is the Rajput-"panchranga": a rectangular field with five horizontal equally wide stripes saffron (orange) - white - red - yellow - green, over which is placed a white falcon with pink and grey shades, armed or.

On the Meherangarh-Fort in Jodhpur there are hoisted horizontal panchranga-flags. The order of colours is as follows: saffron over white over red over yellow over green (according to your FIAV-Code it is O_W_R_Y_G+) . There is a special version of the flag, carved into the walls of Meherangarh. It is a square flag with a falcon superimposed on the white, red and yellow strip. The falcon is bearing a black trident (= trisula) in his right claw, he is crowned with a golden sunshade-umbrella (= chhatri) within the saffron strip. And there is a golden ribbon with an inscription within the green stripe.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 April 2005

Jodhpur flag The ratio is estimated 10:19.
The flag shows the colours of Jodhpur, which are orange over red over white over yellow over green. In the centre of the flag is a golden brownish sinister facing bird. Source: Spotted upon the walls of Mehrangarh Fort in August 2004
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 28 May 2010

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 September 2010

Another flag was spotted in Mehrangarh Fort. It is a nearly square flag with silver fringes at three sides. The flag shows the colours of Jodhpur, which are orange over red over white over yellow over green. In the centre of the flag is the great coat of arm of Jodhpur instead of the usual falcon.. The shield is repeating the flag pattern but they look somehow metallic as if having been made of brocade. In the centre of the shield is the falcon, in its canton a golden (=yellow) square with three black feathers. The shield is has two falcons as supporters being enchained to the shield. Above the shield is a golden crest topped by a half rampant lion of the same colour. Beneath the shield are golden floral ornaments, a silver ribbon with an (unfortunately unreadable) inscription and two golden medals.
Source: Spotted in Mehrangarh Fort in August 2004
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 September 2010

Jodhpur/Marwar (India)

Some facts

Variant flags

Jodhpur cavalry lance pennant

Coat of Arms