India Gate

India Gate stands at the eastern end of the ceremonial Rajpath axis in New Delhi, designed by the British architect Edwin Lutyens as part of his broader plan for the new imperial capital and inaugurated in February 1931. Built of red and pale sandstone in the form of a triumphal arch, it commemorates roughly 74,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died between 1914 and 1921 in the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War, with the names of more than 13,000 of them inscribed on its walls. Lutyens drew explicitly on the model of Roman triumphal arches such as the Arch of Constantine, and the monument is often compared to Paris's Arc de Triomphe. Since India's independence it has also come to serve as a site of national remembrance for later Indian soldiers.