The Ambedkar Memorial Park is a vast pink sandstone monument complex in Gomti Nagar that fills 107 acres with domes, courtyards, colonnades, and enormous bronze elephants. It was built in honour of Dr B.R. Ambedkar — the author of the Indian constitution — and a series of Dalit leaders, with sixty-two bronze elephant statues encircling the central plaza and a hundred-and-fifty-foot domed memorial at its heart.
The architecture is monumental, deliberately overwhelming, and unlike anything else in Lucknow. Walk it in the late afternoon when the light is on the sandstone; entry is cheap, the security is heavy, and bags are screened. The adjacent Ramabai Ambedkar Maidan holds the largest public political rally ground in India.