India Gate, Delhi

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India gate, a memorial to the fallen soldiers from the British Indian army, that died in battle, fighting for the British Empire during World War 1 and also the Afghan wars
The foundation stone was laid in 1921 by the Duke of Connaught.
The words - "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 Afgan War" are inscribed at the top of the monument...
India gate is the centre of 'Lutyens Delhi'. Edwin Lutyens was commissioned by the British to design an `imperial capital', ironically India became independent almost as soon as it was finished.

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The India Gate is situated in New Delhi, a park-like area, circled by the central main roads. I went there on my first day in Delhi, waiting for my travel mate to arrive in the late evening. The street crossings really are a slaughter house here, not easy to get to the India Gate. I had crossed one of those 6-laned city roads, when I suddenly heard a loud break-noise of the blocked car tires, while turning around from a distance of maybe 100m I heard a loud crash - when I finally saw what was going on, there was a man flying over the streets, because of the car hit. He got up in his shock for one second, collapsing immediately again on the street asphalt. The driver just drew him on the side of the street, where people looked for the badly hurt person - just to go back into his car and carrying on with his ride as if nothing had happened..................now that really left a bad taste in my mouth, looking twice before doing any movement in the Delhi traffic.

The area surrounding the India Gate is a gathering place for families and couples to enjoy the park like surrounds and have picnics. There are plenty of food stalls around as well as a large fountain with small lake with boats for hire. The fountain is lit up at night time.

The sandstone canopy facing the India Gate used to hold a statue of King George V which was put there in 1936. The statue was removed and placed in Coronation Park probably because that was the site where George, who was proclaimed King Emperor of India in 1911. The canopy which was also designed by Lutyens now stands empty.

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Under the canopy of the India gate is black marble memorial which has a rifle standing in the centre with a soldiers helmet placed on the top. An eternal flame (Amar Jawan Jyoti – which means the flame of the immortal warrior), burns 24 hours a day and was lit to honour those soldiers killed in the Indo-Pak war in 1971.

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The India Gate is Edwin Lutyens monument to commemorate the soldiers of India who fought and subsequently died during World War I and also the Afghan Wars. The monument sits at the eastern end of Rajpath and was built in 1931.

On the walls of the walls of the monument are the names of all the 90,000 fallen soldiers who died in those earlier wars.

There is an inscription on the top of the India Gate which reads :

“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

This beautiful is a war memorial to the Indian troops who fought and died in the British army.
standing 42m tall it was a stunning sight in the late afternoon sunshine, it is inscribed with names of the 90,000 soldiers who died in WWI, the North West Frontier action, and the 1919 Afghan conflict, and inside the arch is an eternal flame in memory of the Unknown Soldier

the memorial, which is officially called the All Indian War Memorial, is illuminated at night from 7 to 9.30pm

Sunset is the most popular time to visit the lndia Gate, and there are lots of hawkers around then, you will get some hassle