India Gate
Around 13,300 names carved in stone — soldiers lost across Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Afghan frontier.
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Edwin Lutyens drew on Roman triumphal arches — specifically the Arch of Constantine — to build this memorial for 74,187 soldiers who died between 1914 and 1921. Beneath the archway, a black marble plinth with a reversed rifle and war helmet marks where four eternal flames burned as India's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from 1971 until 2022, when the flame was merged with the nearby National War Memorial.
What to look for
- The inscribed names covering the arch — around 13,300 servicemen from the Indian Army and British forces
- The black marble plinth with its reversed rifle and helmet beneath the archway, the former Amar Jawan Jyoti site
- The arch's placement anchoring Kartavya Path, New Delhi's ceremonial axis
Sits on Kartavya Path in central New Delhi; the surrounding lawns are a prominent public gathering space, busiest at dusk.
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More to see in Delhi
- Red FortThe ramparts where Jawaharlal Nehru raised India's flag on 15 August 1947 still host that ceremony every Independence Day.
- Qutb MinarSuccessive dynasties handed this tower off across 170 years — Aibak started it in 1199, Firuz Shah Tughlaq capped it with a cupola in 1368.
- Humayun's TombThe red-sandstone ancestor of the Taj Mahal — commissioned by an empress, designed by Persian architects, and finished a century before Agra.
- Jama MasjidShah Jahan built his imperial mosque at the highest point of Shahjahanabad — the Mughal capital — and it was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Mughal power across India.
- Lotus TempleTwenty-seven marble petals, grouped in threes, fold into a single hall where any person of any faith walks in without condition.
- Rashtrapati BhavanThe world's largest official residence by floor area — outranking even Brunei's Istana Nurul Iman — stands at the end of Rajpath.