India Gate: The Popular Attraction of India

India Gate is known to be the most popular national monument of our country. India Gate is so popular in the whole world as it is the largest war memorial in India. The monument is situated at the heart of New Delhi and it was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is the prominent landmark in Delhi and commonerates the 90,000 soldiers of British Indian Army who has lost their lives fighting for the Indian empire in 1st World War and Afgan War.

The Construction:
The monument India Gate was constructed in the memory of 90,000 soldiers who had laid down their lives during the World War 1. The monument is situated at Rajpath, which is around 42 meter high and is the most popular relaxing area in the summer evenings. India gate is also considered as the famous picnic spot in winters.

The tour to the Delhi takes up to the journey to the India Gate at the east end of the broad Janpath (earlier Kingsway) and it then leads to the Rashtrapati Bhawan. There are additional 13,516 names engraved on the arch and foundations of the British soldiers killed on the North West Frontier in the Afghan War of 1919. Another memorial, Amar Jawan Jyoti is said goodbye to the imperial rulers. Amar Jawan Jyoti is the form of flame that burns day and night under the arch to remind the soldiers of the nation of soldiers who perished in the Indo- Pakistan War of December 1971. The foundation stone of the India Gate is laid by the HRH the Duke of Connaught in 1921 and the monument was dedicated to the nation after 10 years by the Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

"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."

How to Reach:

Reaching Delhi is not a tough job. The capital city is having a wide network of accessibility from almost everywhere in the country as well as from almost every part of the globe. After reaching the capital city there are many local transport like bus, auto, private cabs, etc are available in the city to go to India Gate.

Tour to the famous India Gate
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