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{{Short description|War memorial arch in New Delhi, India}}
{{Distinguish|Gateway of India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox military memorial
|name=India Gate
|country={{flag|India}}
|image=[[File:India Gate on the evening of 77th Independence day.jpg|200px]]
|use_dates=1914–1921
|established={{start date and age|10 February 1921}}
|unveiled={{start date and age|12 February 1931}}
|coordinates={{Coord|28|36|46.31|N|77|13|45.5|E|type:landmark_region:IN-DL|display=inline,title}}
|location={{Location map | India New Delhi
| width =
| lat_deg = 28.61288
| lon_deg = 77.22953
}}
|designer=[[Sir Edwin Lutyens]]
|inscription=13,313 engraved names, 12,357 Indian{{sfnp|Chhina, Last Post. Indian War Memorials Around the World|2014|pp=78}} and honours 70,000 fallen soldiers of undivided India<ref name="DELHI MEMORIAL" />
|commemorates=the martyred soldiers of the Indian Armies who fell during World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War
|caption=Front view, with the canopy (holding the [[Statue of Subhas Chandra Bose]]) in the background}}

The '''India Gate''' (formerly known as '''All India War Memorial''') is a [[war memorial]] located near the [[Rajpath]] (officially called [[Kartavya Path|Kartavya path]]) on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of [[New Delhi, India|New Delhi]]. It stands as a memorial to 74,187 soldiers of the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] who died between 1914 and 1921 in the [[World War I|First World War]], in [[France]], [[Flanders]], [[Mesopotamia]], [[Persia]], [[East Africa]], [[Gallipoli]] and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]]. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate.<ref name="DELHI MEMORIAL">{{cite web|year=|title=Delhi Memorial (India Gate)|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/142700/DELHI%20MEMORIAL%20%28INDIA%20GATE%29|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414035151/https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/142700/delhi%20memorial%20(india%20gate)/|archive-date=14 April 2021|access-date=24 January 2022|website=|publisher=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]}}</ref> Designed by Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]], the gate evokes the architectural style of the ancient Roman [[triumphal arch]]es such as the [[Arch of Constantine]] in Rome, and later [[Memorial gates and arches|memorial arch]]es; it is often compared to the [[Arc de Triomphe]] in Paris, and the [[Gateway of India]] in Mumbai.

Following the [[Bangladesh Liberation war]] in 1972, a structure consisting of a black marble plinth with a reversed rifle, capped by a war helmet and bounded by four eternal flames, was built beneath the archway. This structure, called [[Amar Jawan Jyoti]] (Flame of the Immortal Soldier), has since 1971 served as India's [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier|tomb of the unknown soldier]]. India Gate is counted amongst the largest war memorials in India and every [[Republic Day (India)|Republic Day]], the [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] visits the Gate to pay their tributes to the [[Amar Jawan Jyoti]], following which the Republic Day parade starts. India Gate is often a location for [[civil society]] protests, and is popular with tourists.

== History ==
[[File: India Gate in 1930s.jpg|thumb|left|Armoured cars passing through the gate, in the 1930s]]
The India Gate was part of the work of the [[Imperial War Graves Commission]], which came into existence in December 1917 under the British rule for building war graves and memorials to soldiers who were killed in the First World War.<ref>{{cite journal |last=David A. Johnson |author2=Nicole F. Gilbertson |title=Commemorations of Imperial Sacrifice at Home and Abroad: British Memorials of the Great War |journal=The History Teacher |date=4 August 2010 |volume=43 |series=4 |pages=564–584 |url=http://www.societyforhistoryeducation.org/pdfs/Johnson_and_Gilbertson.pdf|access-date=9 April 2014}}</ref> The foundation stone of the Gate, then called the All India War Memorial, was laid on 10 February 1921, at 16:30 hrs, by the visiting [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn|Duke of Connaught]] in a ceremony attended by officers and men of the Imperial Indian Army, [[Imperial Service Troops]], the Commander-in-Chief, and [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|Lord Chelmsford]], the Viceroy.<ref name="Duke, war memorial">{{cite book|last=Connaught, Duke of|first=Arthur|title=His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught in India 1921 Being a Collection of the Speeches Delivered by His Royal Highness.|year=1921|publisher=Superintendent Government Printing|location=Calcutta|pages=69–71|ol=17945606M}}</ref> On the occasion, the Viceroy is reported to have said, "The stirring tales of individual heroism, will live forever in the annals of this country", and that the memorial which was a tribute to the memory of heroes, "known and unknown", would inspire [[future generations]] to endure hardships with similar fortitude and "no less valor".<ref name="Duke, war memorial"/> The Duke also read out a message from the King, which said, "On this spot, in the central vista of the Capital of India, there will stand a Memorial Archway, designed to keep", in the thoughts of future generations, "the glorious sacrifice of the officers and men of the Indian Army who fought and fell". During the ceremony, the [[Deccan Horse]], 3rd Sappers and Miners, [[6th Jat Light Infantry]], [[34th Sikh Pioneers]], [[39th Garhwal Rifles]], [[59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)]], [[117th Mahrattas]], and [[5th Gurkha Rifles]]. The land was owned by contractor [[Sir Sobha Singh]] who helped construct large tracts of New Delhi and was the primary contractor.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rahman |first=Nadia |date=2013-01-27 |title=Khushwant Singh: An Unequivocal Spokesman of Politics in &lt;i&gt;Truth, Love & a Little Malice: An Autobiography&lt;/i&gt; |journal=Stamford Journal of English |volume=4 |pages=111–123 |doi=10.3329/sje.v4i0.13492 |issn=2408-8838|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tiwari |first=Rajiv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBRYCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22sir+sobha+singh%22+%22india+gate%22&pg=PT21 |title=Delhi A Travel Guide |date=2020 |publisher=Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |isbn=9798128819703 |language=en}}</ref> 
[[File:India Gate from Rajpath.jpg|thumb|right|India gate, as seen from Kartavya Path]]

Ten years after the foundation stone's laying on 12 February 1931, the memorial was inaugurated by [[Lord Irwin]], who, on the occasion, said "those who after us shall look upon this monument may learn in pondering its purpose something of that sacrifice and service which the names upon its walls record."<ref name="Metcalf, India gate">{{cite journal|last=Metcalf|first=Thomas R.|author-link=Thomas R. Metcalf|date=31 March 2014|title=WW I: India's Great War Dulce Et Decorum Est India Gate, our WW-I cenotaph, now stands for an abstracted ideal|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?289882|url-status=dead|journal=Outlook|issue=31 March 2014|access-date=8 April 2014|archive-date=9 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409002957/http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?289882}}</ref> In the decade between the laying of foundation stone of the memorial and its inauguration, the rail-line was shifted to run along the [[Yamuna River]], and the [[New Delhi Railway Station]] was opened in 1926.<ref name=htlux>{{cite news|title=A fine balance of luxury and care |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/chunk-ht-ui-newdelhi100years-topstories/A-fine-balance-of-luxury-and-care/Article1-723880.aspx |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127160500/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/chunk-ht-ui-newdelhi100years-topstories/A-fine-balance-of-luxury-and-care/Article1-723880.aspx |archive-date=27 November 2011 }}</ref>

The Gate, which is illuminated every evening from 19:00 hrs to 21:30 hrs, today serves as one of Delhi's most important tourist attractions. Cars used to travel through the gate until it was closed to traffic.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} The Republic Day Parade starts from [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]] and passes around the India Gate.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} India gate is often a location for civil society protests, including demonstrations in response to the [[2011 Indian anti-corruption movement|2011 anti-corruption movement]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dutta|first=Aesha|date=23 December 2012|title=India Gate turns war zone as protests swell|work=The Hindu BusinessLine Online|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/india-gate-turns-war-zone-as-protests-swell/article20543914.ece1|access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/limit-public-access-to-india-gate-delhi-police/articleshow/15863509.cms?from=mdr |title=Limit public access to India Gate: Delhi Police |last=Ghosh |first=Dwaipayan |date=28 August 2012 |work=Economic Times |access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/protest-held-at-india-gate-to-demand-justice-for-unnao-rape-survivor-1574997-2019-07-29 |title=Protest held at India Gate to demand justice for Unnao rape survivor |author=PTI |date=29 July 2019 |work=India Today|access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref>

In 2017, the India Gate was [[Sister city|twinned]] with the [[Arch of Remembrance]] in [[Leicester]], England, another Lutyens war memorial, following a very similar design but on a smaller scale. In a ceremony, India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom laid a wreath at the arch in Leicester and the British High Commissioner to India laid one at the India Gate.<ref>{{cite news|date=25 May 2017|title=Leicester and New Delhi war memorials links ceremonies|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40045122|access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

== Design and structure ==
[[File:India Gate For Soldiers.JPG|thumb|Angled view]]
The memorial gate was designed by [[Sir Edwin Lutyens]], who was not only the main architect of New Delhi but also a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission and one of Europe's foremost designers of war graves and memorials. He designed sixty-six war memorials in Europe, including the highly regarded  [[The Cenotaph, Whitehall|Cenotaph in London]] in 1919, the first national war memorial erected after World War I, for which he was commissioned by [[David Lloyd George]], the British Prime Minister.<ref name="The History Teacher /9 April">{{cite journal |last=David A. Johnson |author2=Nicole F. Gilbertson |title=Commemorations of Imperial Sacrifice at Home and Abroad: British Memorials of the Great War |journal=The History Teacher |date=4 August 2010 |volume=43 |series=4 |pages=564–584 |url=http://www.societyforhistoryeducation.org/pdfs/Johnson_and_Gilbertson.pdf|access-date=9 April 2014}}</ref> The memorial in New Delhi, like the Cenotaph in London, is a secular memorial, free of religious and "culturally-specific iconography such as crosses". Lutyens according to his biographer, Christopher Hussey, relied on the "elemental mode", a style of commemoration based on a "universal architectural style free of religious ornamentation".
[[File:India Gate ceiling.jpg|thumb|Looking up, through the main arch]]

The India Gate, which has been called a "creative reworking of the Arc de Triomphe" has a span of {{convert|30|ft|m}} across the larger opening and lies on the eastern axial end of Kingsway, present-day Kartavya Path, the [https://centralvista.gov.in/ central vista] and main ceremonial procession route in New Delhi.<ref name="The History Teacher /9 April"/> The {{convert|42|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall}} India Gate stands on a low base of red [[Bharatpur district|Bharatpur]] stone and rises in stages to a huge [[cornice]] moulding above a [[frieze]] with [[sunburst]] motifs. The shallow domed bowl at the top was intended to be filled with burning oil on anniversaries, but this is rarely done.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} The memorial-gate hexagon complex, with a diameter of about {{convert|625|m|ft}}, covers approximately {{cvt|306,000|m2|sqft}} in area.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

The India Gate structure is oblong, with a large archway on each of the four faces, but the arches on the long sides are larger and higher.  The arches on the shorter sides are blocked at the bottom, with doorways, but open higher up. Technically the four arches make the building a [[tetrapylon]]. There is a large ornament in stone above the blocked bottom of the arches on the shorter sides.  [[Molding (decorative)|Mouldings]] run around the building at the levels from which both sizes of arch rise, and the [[Keystone (architecture)|keystones]] of the arches protrude slightly. The top of the keystones on the short sides' arches touch the bottom of the moulding at the base level of the higher long sides' arches.  The ceilings and undersides of the arches are decorated with well-spaced [[coffer]]s.

=== Inscriptions ===
The cornice of the India Gate is inscribed with Imperial suns while both sides of the arch have INDIA, flanked by the dates MCMXIV ('1914'; on the left) and MCMXIX ('1919'; on the right). Below the word INDIA, in capital letters, is inscribed:
[[File:India Gate, New Delhi.jpg|thumb|290x290px|Inscription at top of the gate]]
{{blockquote|To the dead of the Indian Armies who fell and are honoured in France and Flanders, Mesopotamia and Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and Far East and in Sacred Memory also of those whose names are here recorded and who fell in India on the North West Frontier and during the Third Afghan War.}}
13,313 names are engraved out of which 12,357 are Indian.{{sfnp|Chhina, Last Post. Indian War Memorials Around the World|2014|pp=78}}<ref name="DELHI MEMORIAL" /> Access to read the names on the memorial is restricted, though they can be seen on the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] (CWGC) website, which lists the names with their respective date of death, unit name, regiment, place on gate where name is inscribed, location, and other information).<ref name="war Dead, India gate">{{cite web|author1=|year=|title=Find War Dead: DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/search-results/?Surname=&Forename=&Initials=&ServiceNum=&Regiment=&Cemetery=DELHI+MEMORIAL+(INDIA+GATE)&CemeteryExact=true&CountryCommemoratedIn=null&Unit=&Rank=&SecondaryRegiment=&AgeOfDeath=0&DateDeathFromDay=1&DateDeathFromMonth=January&DateDeathFromYear=&DateDeathToDay=1&DateDeathToMonth=January&DateDeathToYear=&DateOfDeath=&Honours=null&AdditionalInfo=&Tab=&Page=1|access-date=3 September 2014|website=|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)}}</ref>

== Canopy ==
[[File: Canopy behind India Gate.jpg|alt=Canopy behind India gate|thumb|Canopy in the vicinity of the gate]]

About {{Convert|150|m|ft}} east of the gate, at a junction of six roads, is a {{Convert|73|ft|m}} [[cupola]], inspired by a sixth-century pavilion from [[Mahabalipuram]]. Lutyens used four [[Delhi Order]] columns to support the domed canopy and its ''[[chhajja]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Lutyens: The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) |chapter=King George V Memorial, Princes' Place, New Delhi |last=Stamp |first=Gavin |author-link=Gavin Stamp |year=1981 |publisher=[[Arts Council of Great Britain]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-7287-0304-9 |page=180}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gradidge|first=Roderick|title=Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate|publisher=George Allen and Unwin|year=1981|isbn=978-0-04-720023-6|location=London|page=151|author-link=Roderick Gradidge}}</ref>

=== Statue of King-Emperor George V ===
[[File:Statue av Kong Georg V av Storbritannia ved India Gate (1952) (16872147692).jpg|thumb|Canopy in 1952 with the George V statue still in place]]
In the autumn of 1930, [[Jagatjit Singh]], the Maharaja of [[Kapurthala State]], organized an appeal amongst the Indian princely rulers to erect a statue of [[George V of the United Kingdom|King-Emperor George V]] in New Delhi to commemorate the sovereign's recent recovery from [[sepsis]].<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=4 October 1930 |title=The Indian Princes and the King-Emperor|work=The Times|page=9}}</ref> As originally conceived, the statue would have depicted the monarch in marble riding in a howdah atop a red stone elephant; a canopy was not then included in the design.<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=3 April 1932 |title=King-Emperor's Statue In Delhi|work=The Times|page=11}}</ref> The final concept, approved by George V before his death, dispensed with the elephant, instead incorporating a red stone canopy and pedestal, with the pedestal standing {{convert|34.5|ft|m|2}} tall.<ref name="statue_Times"/> An {{convert|18.75|ft|m|2}} tall marble statue of the King-Emperor wearing his [[Delhi Durbar]] coronation robes and [[Imperial State Crown]], bearing the British [[globus cruciger]] and sceptre, was placed atop the pedestal, which bore the Royal Coat of Arms and the inscription GEORGE V R I, the "R I" designating him as 'Rex Imperator' or 'King Emperor'.<ref name="statue_Times"/><ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/>

The combined height of the statue and pedestal was {{convert|53.25|ft|m|2}}; while the pedestal and canopy were designed by Lutyens, the statue was designed by [[Charles Sargeant Jagger]] of the [[Royal Academy of Arts]]. The canopy was topped by a gilded [[Tudor Crown (heraldry)|Tudor Crown]] and bore the Royal Cyphers of George V,<ref name="crown">{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=14 August 1958 |title=Crown over Delhi Statue Removed - George V Memorial|work=The Times|page=6}}</ref> with the completed monument intended to "mark the loyalty and attachment of the Ruling Princes and Chiefs of India to the Person and Throne of the King-Emperor."<ref name="statue_Times">{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=25 August 1934 |title=Delhi Statue Of King-Emperor|work=The Times|page=9}}</ref> Following the premature death of Jagger, the statue's head and crown were completed by one of his assistants in England and then shipped to India, while the remainder of the monument was carved in India.<ref name="statue_George">{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=21 January 1936 |title=Delhi Statue Of King George|work=The Times|page=14}}</ref>

The statue's installation in the autumn of 1936,<ref name="statue_George"/> amidst the [[Indian independence movement]], made it a target for Independence activists; on the night of 3 January 1943, during the [[Quit India movement]], [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna]] and [[Manubhai Shah]] scaled the statue, smashed its nose and draped it with a large black cloth inscribed "Death to the Tyrant."<ref>{{cite book |last=Joshi |first=Naveen |title=Freedom Fighters Remember |year=1997 |publisher=Government of India |location=New Delhi |isbn=81-230-0575-X |page=76}}</ref> The statue remained standing at its original site for two decades following the nation's independence in 1947, but certain political factions increasingly objected to its continued presence in its central location, particularly after the tenth anniversary of Independence and the centennial of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947">{{cite journal |last1=McGarr |first1=Paul |date=2015 |title=The Viceroys are Disappearing from the Roundabouts in Delhi: British symbols of power in post-colonial India |journal=Modern Asian Studies |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=787–831 |doi= 10.1017/s0026749x14000080|doi-access=free }}</ref> On the night of 12–13 August 1958, the royal insignia of George V and the Tudor Crown atop the canopy were removed.<ref name="crown"/>

With increasing pressure from Socialist members of Parliament, then-Deputy Minister Home Affairs [[Lalit Narayan Mishra]] stated in May 1964 that all British statuary would be removed from the national capital by 1966.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/> Two days before [[Independence Day (India)|Independence Day]] in 1965, members of the [[Samyukta Socialist Party]] overpowered two constables guarding the site, covered the statue in tar and defaced its imperial crown, nose and one ear, also leaving a photo of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] at the monument.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/> Despite the resulting adverse publicity and the growing controversy over the situation, the matter of relocating the statue dragged on for several years.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/> The British government rejected a proposal to repatriate the monument to the United Kingdom, citing the lack of an appropriate site and sufficient funds, while the British High Commission in New Delhi declined to have the statue relocated to their compound, due to limited space.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/> Efforts to move the statue to a Delhi park were strongly opposed by the nationalist [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]], which then held power in the city.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/> Finally, in late 1968, the statue was removed from its position beneath the canopy and briefly placed in storage before being moved to Delhi's [[Coronation Park, Delhi|Coronation Park]], where it joined other British Raj-era statues.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947"/>

During and after the statue's removal, it was often suggested that a statue of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] be placed under the canopy.<ref name="British_monuments_in_India_post_1947" /> The suggestion was even discussed in the Indian Parliament.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} In 1981, the government had in response to a question in the Parliament, confirmed that it was considering the installation of a Gandhi statue under the empty canopy, but nothing came of it.<ref name="PeopleSabha1903">{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. House of the People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlI3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA197|title=Lok Sabha Debates|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|year=1981|pages=197–}}</ref>

=== Subhas Chandra Bose statue ===
{{main|Statue of Subhas Chandra Bose}}
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi unveils the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate, during the inauguration of the ‘Kartavya Path’, in New Delhi on September 08, 2022 (1).jpg|thumb|Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] unveils the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate, during the inauguration of the 'Kartavya Path', in New Delhi on 8 September 2022.]]
On 21 January 2022, Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] announced that a statue of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] would be installed in the canopy at India Gate. The announcement came two days before the 125th anniversary of his birth. A 28 feet high and 6 feet wide 3D [[Holography|holographic]]{{Clarify|date=April 2025}} statue of Bose was inaugurated at the site on 23 January 2022, celebrated as [[Netaji Jayanti|Parakram Diwas]] (Courage Day).<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|last=|date=2022-01-23|title=Netaji birth anniversary: PM Modi to unveil hologram statue today at India Gate|url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/netaji-subash-chandra-bose-birth-anniversary-pm-modi-to-unveil-hologram-statue-today-at-india-gate-11642910983225.html|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Livemint}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 January 2021 |title=Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti: PM Modi to install hologram statue at India Gate today |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/politics/story/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-jayanti-pm-modi-to-install-hologram-statue-at-india-gate-today-320012-2022-01-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123045524/https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/politics/story/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-jayanti-pm-modi-to-install-hologram-statue-at-india-gate-today-320012-2022-01-23 |archive-date=2022-01-23 |access-date=2022-01-23 |website=Business Today |language=en}}</ref> On this occasion, an award in the name of Bose was instituted for the exemplary work in disaster management. On 8 September 2022, Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] inaugurated the newly made statue of [[Subhas Chandra Bose|Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose]] near the India Gate.

== Amar Jawan Jyoti ==
{{main|Amar Jawan Jyoti}}
[[File:Amar Javan Jyoti.jpg|thumb|right|241x241px|Amar Jawan Jyoti, beneath the arch of the gate]]
Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the flame of the immortal soldier, is a structure consisting of black marble plinth, with reversed rifle, capped by war helmet, bound by four urns, each with the permanent light (''jyoti'') from compressed natural gas flames,<ref name="gupta, 10dec">{{cite news|last=Gupta|first=Geeta|date=10 June 2012|title=Keeper of the flame|newspaper=Indian Express Archive|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/keeper-of-the-flame/960016/0|access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> erected under the India gate to commemorate Indian soldiers martyred in the war of the liberation of Bangladesh in December 1971. It was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] on 26 January 1972, the twenty-third Indian Republic Day.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Since the installation of the Amar Jawan Jyoti, it has served as India's [[tomb of the unknown soldier]].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} It is staffed around the clock by the Indian armed forces.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} Wreaths are placed at the Amar Jawan Jyoti every Republic Day, [[Vijay Diwas (India)|Vijay Diwas]], and Infantry Day{{Efn|Infantry Day is the day Indian infantry air landed at Srinagar on 27 October 1947 to stop and defeat the Pakistani mercenaries' attack on Jammu and Kashmir.}} by the Prime Minister and the Chiefs of the Armed Forces.<ref name="Goswami,10 April">{{cite news|last=Goswami|first=Col (retd) Manoranjan|date=30 August 2009|title=War memorial|newspaper=Assam Tribune|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=aug3009/edit3|url-status=dead|access-date=10 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413143631/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=aug3009/edit3|archive-date=13 April 2014}}</ref>

On 21 January 2022 the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate was merged with the Amar Jawan Jyoti at the National War Memorial.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Bose|first=Joydeep|date=2022-01-21|title=In historic move, Amar Jawan Jyoti merged with National War Memorial flame|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-historic-move-amar-jawan-jyoti-merged-with-national-war-memorial-flame-101642759893068.html|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref>

== National War Memorial ==
{{Main article|National War Memorial (India)}}
{{National War Memorial complex and India Gate OSM Location map}}
In July 2014, the government announced plans to construct a [[National War Memorial (India)|National War Memorial]] in the C-Hexagon (India Gate Circle), and an adjoining National War Museum. The cabinet allocated {{INRConvert|500|c|lk=on}} for the project.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Joseph|first=Josy|author-link=Josy Joseph|date=7 October 2015|title=Cabinet clears Rs. 500 crore for National War Memorial|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cabinet-clears-rs-500-crore-for-war-memorial-museum-for-postindependence-martyrs/article7734542.ece|access-date=2019-01-30|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The National War Memorial was completed in January, 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/war-museum-ready-60-yrs-after-it-was-first-proposed/articleshow/67330108.cms|title=Delhi: War memorial ready, 60 years after it was first proposed|last=Pandit|first=Rajat|date=1 January 2019|website=The Times of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103074259/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//city/delhi/war-museum-ready-60-yrs-after-it-was-first-proposed/articleshow/67330108.cms|archive-date=3 January 2019|url-status=live|access-date=2019-01-30}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/urban/national-war-museum-delhi-india-gate|title=National War Memorial Takes Shape Six Decades After Being Conceived|last=Bhatnagar|first=Gaurav Vivek|date=21 April 2018|website=The Wire|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130125759/https://thewire.in/urban/national-war-museum-delhi-india-gate|archive-date=30 January 2019|access-date=2019-01-30}}</ref> Since January 2022, it houses the [[Amar Jawan Jyoti]], or the "Flame of the Immortal Soldier".<ref name=":2" />
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== Gallery ==
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File:India Gate, New Delhi at Night.jpg|The gate is illuminated with colors of the Indian flag
File:India-gate-names.jpg|Engravings on the walls of the gate
File:India Gate - Architecture inside.jpg|The ornaments on the side axis
File:Indian Armed Forces flags.jpg|Flags of the Indian Armed Forces at the gate
File:Defense.gov photo essay 120606-D-BW835-022.jpg|Indian army at the gate
File:Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's official visit to India (07).jpg|Russian Defence Minister [[Sergey Shoygu]] at the wreath laying ceremony
File:A Mass Run against Drug Abuse, on the occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, at India Gate, in New Delhi on June 26, 2011.jpg|People at the gate, on [[International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking]], in 2011
File:India_Gate_View_Point.jpg|India Gate View Point

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== See also ==
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* [[Gateway of India]]
* [[Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial]]
* [[Delhi War Cemetery]]

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite book|last=Chhina|first=Rana T.S.|url=https://www.mea.gov.in/Uploads/PublicationDocs/23460_IWM_Book__11-06-2014_.pdf|title=Last Post. Indian War Memorials Around the World.|publisher=Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research, United Service Institution of India|others=A public diplomacy initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs|year=2014|isbn=978-81-902097-9-3|ref={{sfnref|Chhina, Last Post. Indian War Memorials Around the World|2014}}|author-link=Rana Chhina|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120044036/https://mea.gov.in/Uploads/PublicationDocs/23460_IWM_Book__11-06-2014_.pdf|archive-date=20 January 2022|url-status=live}}

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