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Lakshadweep (India)

Laccadive Islands

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Possible regional flag

[Possible flag of Lakshadweep] by Roman Kogovsek

The web page at http://lakshadweep.nic.in/administrator.html shows the administrator with two versions of a red-black-red horizontal triband with a coat of arms centred.
Fabien Antoine, 26 April 2010


Unofficial flag proposal

[Unofficial flag proposal of Lakshadweep] image by Erwin Hoheisel, 20 October 2016

This design is by reddit user Sangfroid22. who presented it on on /r/India here after being inspired by the well known Roman Mars TED talk on flag design. It looks like it has started to be used by the /r/India community,
but is certainly not "the flag of Lakshadweep" as such.
Jonathan Dixon, 21 October 2016

I believe that the sub-divisions of India cannot legally adopt flags (except Jammu and Kashmir). While there are unofficial regional and ethnic flags, I think the only official or semi-official flags are the flags of the Governments/administrations of the states/territories, which is not the same thing as a State flag, but rather a flag for the state's administration. Vexilla Mundi has a nice page on the known ones.

I believe most of the Union territories, which is what Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep are (they are not states) only use similar plain seals with just the name of "government of X" being different. But I may be wrong, I have not seen any official state documents on the issue.
https://www.naukrinama.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Administration-of-Andaman-Nicobar-Various-Posts-2015.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Seal_of_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands.svg
Ben Cahoon, 22 October 2016

Arms proposal

[Unofficial arms proposal of Lakshadweep] image by Erwin Hoheisel, 20 October 2016