Friday, January 24, 2014

Delhi and Agra Tourist Places

1. India Gate (New Delhi)
  
 The foundation stone of India Gate was laid by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught in 1921 and it was designed by Edwin Lutyens.it commemorates more than 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the World War ONE. The memorial bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.
India Gate stands at one end of Raj path, and the area surrounding it is generally referred to as 'India Gate'.