India Gate, New Delhi

India Gate, New Delhi (10 November, 2004)


India Gate (GPS: 28.6121, 77.22946) is a huge war memorial in New Delhi, India. Situated on the Rajpath, India Gate was built by Edwin Lutyens to commemorate the Indian soldiers who died in the World War I and the Afghan Wars. As such, it was originally called the All India War Memorial. The names of the soldiers who died in the wars are inscribed on the walls. Burning under it since 1971 is the Amar Jawan Jyoti (eternal soldier's flame) which marks the Unknown Soldier's Tomb.

Inscribed on top of India Gate in capital letters is the line:

"To the dead of the Indian armies who fell honoured in France and Flanders Mesopotamia and Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east and in sacred memory also of those whose names are recorded and who fell in India or the north-west frontier and during the Third Afghan War."

It is a memorial arch in honour of the 70,000 Indian Soldiers who died in the First World War. Their names are engraved on it. It was completed in 1931 and it is located on Rajpath. The gate is 160 feet high and an arch of 138 feet. Built out of sandstone it houses the eternal flame. The eternal flame stands in memory of the Brave Indian Soldiers who had died in the 1971 battle against Pakistan.

From the sideIndia Gate is situated such that many important roads spread out from it. Traffic passing around India Gate used to be continuous till the roads were closed to public due to terrorist threats. The lawns around Rajpath are thronged by people during the night, when the India Gate is lit up. (10 November, 2004)


India Gate at sunset. (10 November, 2004)


Side view of the monument. (10 November, 2004)



Inscription atop India Gate. (10 November, 2004)


One of the fountains in the grounds surrounding India Gate. (10 November, 2004)


This empty canopy was built bt Lutyens, the British architect who designed most of the buildings around New Delhi. It used to house the statue of King George V. (10 November, 2004)


The eternal flame that stands in memory of Indian Soldiers who died in the 1971 battle against Pakistan. (10 November, 2004)

India Gate is on the Map of New Delhi, India

List of Monuments in India

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