Raj Ghat and associated memorials

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox historic building Raj Ghat is a memorial complex in Delhi, India. The first memorial was dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi where a black marble platform was raised to mark the spot of his cremation on 31 January 1948 and consists of an eternal flame at one end. Located on Delhi's Ring Road, a stone footpath leads to the walled enclosure that houses the memorial. Later the memorial complex was expanded to include memorials for other prominent Indian leaders including Charan Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Etymology

Raj Ghat loosely translates to Royal Steps with the word "royal" alluding to the importance of the place and "steps" referencing the climb from the banks of the Yamuna river.[1]

Location

Raj Ghat was the name of a location of historic ghat in Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi on the west bank of the Yamuna River east of Daryaganj.[2]

List of memorials

The first memorial was dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi on the spot where his remains were cremated on 31 January 1948. It consists of a black marble platform with an eternal flame at one end. A stone footpath leads to the walled enclosure that houses the memorial. Later the memorial complex was expanded to include several other samadhis for various leaders in the vicinity of Raj Ghat. The landscaping and planting of these memorials were originally performed by Alick Percy-Lancaster, Superintendent of Horticultural operations with the Government of India.[3][4][5][6]

In 2000, the government of India under Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a decision to not create separate memorials for different leaders as the already existing memorials were occupying more than 245 acres of prime land in Delhi.[7]

Name Title/Position Date of death Memorial name
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Mahatma Gandhi Father of the Nation (India) 30 January 1948 Raj Ghat
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Jawaharlal Nehru First Prime Minister of India 27 May 1964 Shantivan
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Lal Bahadur Shastri Second Prime Minister of India 11 January 1966 Vijay Ghat
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Sanjay Gandhi Former member of parliament 23 June 1980 Samadhi of Sanjay Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi Third Prime Minister of India 31 October 1984 Shakti Sthal
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Jagjivan Ram Fourth Deputy Prime Minister of India 6 July 1986 Samta Sthal
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Charan Singh Fifth Prime Minister of India 29 May 1987 Kisan Ghat
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Rajiv Gandhi Sixth Prime Minister of India 21 May 1991 Vir Bhumi
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Lalita Shastri Spouse of Lal Bahadur Shastri 13 April 1993 Samadhi of Lalita Shastri
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Zail Singh Seventh President of India 25 December 1994 Ekta Sthal
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Shankar Dayal Sharma Ninth President of India 26 December 1999 Karma Bhumi
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Devi Lal Sixth Deputy Prime Minister of India 6 April 2001 Sangharsh Sthal
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P. V. Narasimha Rao Ninth Prime Minister of India 23 December 2004 Gyan Bhumi
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K. R. Narayanan Tenth President of India 9 November 2005 Uday Bhumi
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Chandra Shekhar Eighth Prime Minister of India 8 July 2007 Jannayak Sthal
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Ramaswamy Venkataraman Eighth President of India 27 January 2009 Ekta Sthal
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Inder Kumar Gujral Twelfth Prime Minister of India 30 November 2012 Smriti Sthal
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tenth Prime Minister of India 16 August 2018 Sadaiv Atal
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Pranab Mukherjee Thirteenth President of India 31 August 2020 Rashtriya Smriti
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Controversies

The hard materials used in the memorial had raised a few questions about the nature of Gandhian architecture where there is a stark difference between the architecture of Rajghat and a Gandhian low-cost housing architecture.[8]

P. V. Narasimha Rao was the ninth Prime minister of India. He died on 24 December 2004 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi.[9] His family wanted the body cremated at Raj Ghat in Delhi. In 2015, almost ten years since his death, a memorial was finally erected at Gyan Bhumi.[10]

References

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