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About 200m south of Ashoka's pillar, approached by another road, is the
Mutiny Memorial, recently rechristened as Ajitgarh. An octagonal tapering
tower of red sandstone rising from a two-tiered platform and provided with
a staircase on the interior.
It occupies the site of Taylor's battery during the siege of Delhi in
1857, and was built in 1863 in the memory of the soldiers of the
Delhi Field Force who were Killed during the Mutiny.
The names of different units, officers and the number of the British and
Indian officers and ranks who were killed in the Mutiny are inscribed on
different slabs around the tower.
Earlier it was known as 'Fatehgarh' or 'Jitgarh'. But in 1972 on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of India's attainment of freedom, a new plaque
has been fixed here and the site converted into a memorial for those
martyrs who rose against colonial rule in 1857.