India Gate is at the centre of New Delhi, the capital city of India. It commemorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the World War I. The memorial bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the North-western Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919. It is 42 meters tall and stands on red Bharatpur stone and raises to a huge moulding,
The cornice is inscribed with the Imperial suns while both sides of the arch have INDIA, flanked by the dates MCMXIV (1914 left) and MCMXIX (1919 right). The shallow domed bowl at the top was intended to be filled with burning oil on anniversaries but this is rarely done.
India Gate stands at one end of Rajpath. During nightfall it is dramatically floodlit. The area surrounding it is generally referred to as 'India Gate'.
The cornice is inscribed with the Imperial suns while both sides of the arch have INDIA, flanked by the dates MCMXIV (1914 left) and MCMXIX (1919 right). The shallow domed bowl at the top was intended to be filled with burning oil on anniversaries but this is rarely done.
India Gate stands at one end of Rajpath. During nightfall it is dramatically floodlit. The area surrounding it is generally referred to as 'India Gate'.
