Statue of Subhas Chandra Bose, Granite statue at India Gate, New Delhi, India.
The Statue of Subhas Chandra Bose is a 28-foot-tall black granite figure standing in a canopy behind India Gate in New Delhi. Bose is shown in Indian National Army uniform, right hand raised in salute, beneath a yellow arch on a red sandstone base with a water basin.
The sculpture was unveiled in 2022 and honors a man who organized an Indian army against British rule in the 1940s. It replaced an earlier monument that had been removed after independence.
The memorial takes its name from a leader who advocated armed resistance against colonial rule. Today, families and school groups come here to take photographs and explore the story of the freedom struggle.
The site is accessible throughout the day and sits near other monuments around India Gate. On public holidays it can get busier and access may be limited by barricades.
The 280-tonne granite block for the statue was quarried at Khammam in Telangana, not Karnataka, and hauled to Delhi on a specially built 100-foot truck with 140 wheels. Sculptors worked 26,000 man-hours at the National Gallery of Modern Art, where the whole figure was carved by hand.
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