India Gate was originally designed as a war memorial dedicated to Indian soldiers killed in the First World War and other wars such as the Afghan War. The canopy served as a memorial to George V of England. Indians had no real choice when it came to their participation in the Great War during the Raj.Photo: The Hindu Photo Archives
The statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the largest Confederate statue remaining in the U.S., being removed by a construction team in Richmond, Virginia, on September 8, 2021. Other statues that were deemed racial in character were removed from the Capitol, Washington, D.C. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, said: “They are an affront to the highest ideals of America. They pay homage to hate, not heritage, they must be removed.”Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS
A commemorative plate at Birkenau. Modern Germany makes atonements through monuments that are dedicated to the innumerable victims of the Holocaust. Such monuments, like the bleak concentration camps and others in the cityscape, pay homage to the unnamed and unidentified victims. They capture the chilling sombreness of a vast graveyard and evoke the merciless and diabolical killing machine, a blot forever on the nation’s conscience.Photo: Getty Images
The Cecil Rhodes statue high up on the facade of Oriel College in Oxford, on February 5, 2016. The critic Philip Godwin, while conceding Rhodes’ “despicable colonial behaviour”, maintained that Rhodes was “no 19th century Hitler: He wasn’t so much a freak as a man of his time.... Rhodes ... was no worse than the white settlers in North America, South America and Australia.”Photo: Adrian Dennis/AFP
May 27, 1919: (From left) U.K. Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, French Prime Ministers Georges Clemenceau and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference, which decided on the terms of peace after the First World War. While Wilson helped establish the League of Nations, he was also accused of promoting a policy of segregation and racial injustice.Photo: Edward N. Jackson/U.S. Army Signal Corps
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