The India Gate(42-metre tall - Originally known as the All India War Memorial) a national monument of India situated in New Deld designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens(inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris,France) and built in 1931(composed of Red and Pale Sandstone and Granite)commemorating the 90,000 soldiers of the Indian Army who lost their lives while fighting for the Indian Empire or more correctly the British Raj in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
Following India's independence, the India Gate became the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier known as Amar Jawan Jyoti ("the flame of the immortal soldier")
Burning in a shrine under the arch of India Gate since 1971 is the Amar Jawan Jyoti (the flame of the immortal soldier) which marks the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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