Shalimar

Shalimar or Shalamar refers to three historic royal gardens (or Baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia:

  • Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619
  • Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan; a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in 1641
  • Shalimar Bagh, Delhi, India; built in 1653

Shalimar may also refer to:

South Asia

  • Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad, an area in Ghaziabad
  • Shalimar, Lahore, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan
  • Shalimar railway station, serving Howrah and Kolkata
  • Shalimar Express, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India
  • Shalimar Express (Pakistan), train between Karachi and Lahore

Other places

  • Shalimar, alternative name of Shadmehr, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Shalimar, Florida, a town in the United States

Music

  • Shalamar, a soul-R&B group
  • "Kashmiri Song" (1902), also known by its first line "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar"
  • A river in "The Hippopotamus Song" by Flanders and Swann

Film and literature

  • Shalimar (1946 film), a 1946 Bollywood film
  • Shalimar (1978 film), a 1978 Hindi film
  • Shalimar, a book by Manohar Malgonkar
  • Shalimar the Clown, a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie
  • Shalimar Fox, a character in Mutant X (TV series)
  • A town in Song of Solomon (novel), a 1977 novel by Toni Morrison

Other uses

  • HMS Shalimar, a Royal Navy ship
  • Shalimar (perfume), the flagship fragrance of perfume house Guerlain
  • Frank Coutts Hendry, used the pseudonym Shalimar
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