India Gate site features

India Gate rises 42 metres as a pale stone arch with two massive piers and a single high opening. “INDIA” is cut across the upper faces. Thousands of names appear lower down, turning the broad surfaces into a memorial record.

Beneath the opening stands the dark Amar Jawan Jyoti structure: a reversed rifle, helmet and plinth. Its former flame no longer burns there. Open lawns and roads surround the arch, leaving its outline visible from the full length of Kartavya Path.

The arch

1931. A 42-metre stone memorial terminates the ceremonial avenue.

The inscriptions

1931. The monument carries 13,516 names associated with the First World War and Third Anglo-Afghan War.

Amar Jawan Jyoti structure

1972. A reversed rifle and helmet stand under the arch; the flame was merged with the National War Memorial flame in 2022.

The Kartavya Path vista

1931; renewed 2022. The long westward view connects India Gate to Raisina Hill and Rashtrapati Bhavan.