India Gate Delhi India

Sight Seeing. By cruisingindia.com on Oct 29, 2006.

India Gate in Delhi India India Gate commemorates the seventy-thousand Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the First World War and bears the names of more than thirteen-thousand British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.

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India Gate in Delhi India

It stands proudly at forty-two meters in height and bears a striking resemblance to the Arc-de-Triomphe in Paris, France.
Designed by Edwin Lutyens, India Gate’s foundation stone was laid by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught in 1921. Ten years later the monument was dedicated to India by the Lord Irwin, the current Viceroy at the time.

The Amar Jawan Jyoti, the Tomb of the Immortal Soldier, was added in 1971 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This memorial is in the in the form of a flame that burns day and night under the arch to remind the nation of soldiers who laid down their lives in the Indo-Pakistan War of December 1971. Contiguous with the grand structure is a large span of lush green lawns, which is a popular picnic spot.

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