India Gate

India Gate is a 42-metre sandstone arch in New Delhi designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens as a memorial to some 70,000 Indian soldiers who died in the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. The Duke of Connaught laid the foundation stone in 1921, and Viceroy Lord Irwin dedicated the finished monument in 1931. Names of the soldiers are carved into its stone.

The design takes the form of a triumphal arch, often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, mixed with Indian motifs. Its plinth of red Bharatpur stone is low, and the arch steps up to a large moulding, with imperial suns on the cornice and the word INDIA flanked by MCMXIV and MCMXIX on each side. A statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was unveiled here on his 125th birth anniversary.