Kashmere Gate

This double-arched gateway in the northern wall of Shahjahanabad took its name from the road that led out toward Kashmir. Rebuilt in the early nineteenth century, it became a focal point of ferocious fighting during the 1857 uprising, when British forces stormed the city through the breach blasted beside it. Scars from that assault are still visible on its masonry, and a memorial plaque records the engineers who died forcing the entry. It is one of the most historically charged remnants of Delhi's former walls.