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Photo: Photo by Subeesh Balan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Over 84,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War are remembered here, their names inscribed directly onto its walls.
A 42-metre sandstone war memorial designed by Edwin Lutyens, commemorating over 84,000 Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. The Amar Jawan Jyoti flame, added after the 1971 war, honours India's unknown soldiers. It anchors one end of Rajpath (now Kartavya Path), Delhi's ceremonial boulevard used for the annual Republic Day parade. The names of the fallen are inscribed directly onto the monument's walls.
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108 stone steps lead down to what was once a deep water tank, between walls built to pull your eye toward the water.
Feroz Shah Tughlaq had an Ashokan pillar moved here, and it still stands among the ruins of his fortress.
Gandhi lived here for his last 144 days, from 9 September 1947. On 30 January 1948 he was assassinated on these grounds, and a line of footsteps cast in concrete traces his last walk to the prayer meeting.