India Gate
Situated astride the Rajpath, the India Gate is a war memorial originally called as the All India War Memorial.
Built in 1921, the All-India War Memorial is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the undivided Indian Army who died in the period 1914–21 in First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli.
The contribution of 13218 war dead soldiers have been acknowledged by inscribing their name on the India Gate, although access to read the names on the memorial is restricted due to security reasons.
Designed by Edwin Lutyens, India Gate has a span of 30 feet and is called a "creative reworking of the Arc de Triomphe".
The memorial has the word “INDIA” inscribed on it on both the sides flanked by the dates MCMXIV (1914) and MCMXIX (1919) on left and right sides respectively.
The memorial also has the following words inscribed on it in capital letters:
“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”
