War Memorial
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New Delhi · Delhi
India Gate
A 42-metre war-memorial arch and beloved evening gathering place at the heart of New Delhi.
New Delhi · Delhi
National War Memorial
India's memorial to soldiers fallen since Independence — an eternal flame beneath a granite obelisk, ringed by walls bearing 25,900+ names, beside India Gate. Free.
Meerut · Uttar Pradesh
Baba Augharnath Shiv Mandir (Kali Paltan Mandir)
A living Shiva temple inside Meerut Cantonment where sepoys gathered at the well on the eve of the 1857 uprising — worship shrine and freedom-struggle memorial in one quiet complex.
Meerut · Uttar Pradesh
Shahid Smarak & Government Freedom Struggle Museum (1857), Meerut
Meerut's soaring white-marble martyrs' column on Delhi Road, paired with a government museum that tells the story of the city where the 1857 uprising first caught fire.
New Delhi · Delhi
Mutiny Memorial (Ajitgarh)
A slender Gothic red-sandstone tower of 1863 crowning Delhi's Northern Ridge, renamed Ajitgarh in 1972 to honour those who fought for freedom in 1857.
Panipat · Haryana
Kala Amb War Memorial
A quiet memorial park about 8 km from Panipat where a brick pillar and iron rail mark the site of the Third Battle of Panipat (14 January 1761), named for a black mango tree that once stood here.
Panipat · Haryana
Ibrahim Lodi's Tomb
A modest terraced brick grave beside the Grand Trunk Road in Panipat marking the last Sultan of Delhi, who fell in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526.
Panipat · Haryana
Hemu Samadhi Sthal
A quiet roadside memorial at Sodapur on the edge of Panipat marking the spot linked to the execution of Hemu (Hem Chandra Vikramaditya) after the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556.
Rewari · Haryana
Rao Tula Ram Memorial
A statue-and-park memorial in Rewari town honouring Rao Tula Ram, the Ahirwal chieftain who turned this southwest-Haryana town into one of the boldest centres of the 1857 uprising.
Prayagraj · Uttar Pradesh
Rasoolabad Ghat (Chandra Shekhar Azad Ghat)
A historic Ganga ghat in northern Prayagraj, honoured as the cremation site of freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad.
Ujjain · Madhya Pradesh
Mahidpur Heritage Town
A quiet tehsil town on the Shipra in Ujjain district, famed for the 1817 Battle of Mahidpur, with old riverside temples and bathing ghats.
Somnath · Gujarat
INS Khukri Memorial
Hilltop naval memorial in Diu with a glass-encased scale model of INS Khukri, honouring the sailors lost when the frigate sank off Diu in 1971.