Doors and Gates
New and old. Big and small.
The biggest and most famous gate in India: New Delhi, India Gate.
Standing proudly in the middle of Rajpath, New Delhi, the main road linking India Gate to the President's House and Parliment is a 138-foot high monument to Indian soliders who died during World War I, battles on the Northwest Frontier (the modern-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan), and during the third British invasion of Afghanistan in 1919. It was built in 1931 by Edward Lutyens, who also designed the rest of New Delhi. About 85,000 names are inscribed on it, including the 64,449 Indian soliders who died during World War I in Europe and the Middle East.
The text on the top of the arch, reads:
INDIA
To the dead of the Indian Armies who fell and are honoured kin in France and Flanders, Mesopotamia and Persia, East Africa, Gallipolli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East and in sacred memory also of those who names are here recorded and who fell in India on the North West Frontier and during the Third Aghan War.
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