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India Gate (New Delhi, India)

Description: One of India's largest war memorials.

Newest Review: ... the area between the palace and the India Gate was the setting for all major ceremonial processions before Indian Independence and is often featured in film footage from the period between the two World Wars. It is still a focal point for the Republic Day celebrations every January. The construction of the India gate took about 10 years from the laying of the foundation stone in 1921 to its ... more

... completion and its dedication by the Viceroy, Lord Irwin in 1931. It was intended to honour tens of thousands of Indian soldiers killed fighting for the Allies in the First World War and in the later Afghan wars. Although many of the dead are unnamed...more

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India Gate (New Delhi, India): For the Fallen - Far and Near (1052 words)
by - written on 18/05/09 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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India Gate has the rare distinction of being one of the few attractions in Delhi that benefits from being visible from a great distance, rather than being crowded in by surrounding buildings. If you stand outside the Presidential Palace at the far end of Rajpath with the government buildings around you, you can look straight down this regal artery and see the 42m-high India Gate standing proudly in the distance, looking a little like an Asian Arc de Triomphe. And like the Arc de Triomphe, the India Gate also sits effectively at the middle of a giant roundabout. As befits a monument to the noble dead of the First World War, the architect Edwin Lutyens laid out ... Read the complete review

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