The Bonfire of Foreign Garments

During the Indian Independence movement, many of the upper-class, foreign-educated Indians who habitually wore British clothing burned these clothes in a symbolic gesture. They then began boycotting foreign goods, in order to damage the British economy in Indian. Instead, they made their own cloth of homespun cotton, or khaddi, a style which is still popular for both aesthetic and symbolic reasons with certain people today. This memorial, which is literally the equivalent of a few blocks up the street from the hotel, celebrates the historic burning of foreign garments.

In case, while viewing this monument, you are slightly uncertain how to feel about the Indians or British involved, the monument include a helpful description of the event. This description uses a negative adjective to describe the British whenever they are mentioned, and a positive one to describe the Indian Independence fighters.