Gyarah Murti

Gyarah Murti, 'eleven statues', stands at the T-junction of Sardar Patel Marg and Mother Teresa Crescent near Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The Government of India commissioned it in 1972 for the 25th anniversary of independence, and the sculpture is credited to Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury. It honours the many Indians who struggled against foreign rule, and the surrounding area has taken its name.

Gandhi leads ten followers drawn from different communities and walks of life, among them a woman with a sari over her head, a Hindu, a Sikh and a Muslim walking together, a Christian priest, an emaciated man, and a young man urging on a tired older one. The bronze figures are 8 feet tall and the group runs 26 metres. It is widely thought to show the Dandi March, though that is disputed. The statue appeared on the old 500-rupee note, and Gandhi's spectacles, stolen in 1999, were never replaced.