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

Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar Shalimar Bagh is a Mughal garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, linked through a channel to the northeast of Dal Lake. It is also known as Shalimar Gardens, Farah Baksh, and Faiz Baksh. The other famous shoreline garden in the vicinity ...

, Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619 *

Shalimar Gardens, Lahore The Shalimar Gardens ( ur, , translit=Shālāmār Bāgh) are a Mughal garden complex located in Lahore, Pakistan. The gardens date from the period when the Mughal Empire was at its artistic and aesthetic zenith, and are now one of Pakistan's mos ...

, Pakistan; a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in 1641 *

Shalimar Bagh, Delhi Shalimar Bagh also known as Shalimar Garden is a Mughal garden located on the banks of Yamuna river in Delhi, India. It was named as Aizzabad Bagh when the garden was laid by Izz-un-Nissa wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 AD as a trib ...

, India; built in 1653 Shalimar may also refer to:

South Asia

Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad Shalimar Garden is a residential-cum-commercial locality in the North Western part of the city of Ghaziabad, India, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. It comprises three wards of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and accordingly has three major division ...

, an area in Ghaziabad *

Shalimar, Lahore Shalimar ( Punjabi, ur, ) is an administrative town (tehsil) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It forms one of the 10 municipalities of Lahore City District. History Shalimar is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Lahore, located along the histor ...

, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan ** Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences *** Shalamar Hospital *** Shalamar Medical and Dental College *

Shalimar railway station Shalimar railway station is one of five intercity railway stations serving Howrah and Kolkata, India. The other stations are in Kolkata, Kolkata station in Kolkata, Howrah Station in Howrah and Santragachi in Howrah. Shalimar station is situ ...

, serving Howrah and Kolkata * Shalimar Express, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India *

Shalimar Express (Pakistan) Shalimar Express ( ur, ) is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Lahore. The trip takes approximately 18 hours and 40 minutes to cover a published distance of , traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Pes ...

, train between Karachi and Lahore

Other places

* Shalimar, alternative name of

Shadmehr Shadmehr ( fa, شادمهر; also Romanized as Shādmehr; also known as Shādmir and Shalimar) is a city and capital of Shadmehr District, in Mahvelat County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of I ...

, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran * Shalimar, Florida, a town in the United States

Music

Shalamar Shalamar () is an American R&B and soul music vocal group active since the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Shalamar's classic line-up on the SOLAR label consisted of Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey Daniel, together with dancer ...

, 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 ''Shalimar the Clown'' is a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie. The novel took Rushdie four years to write, and was initially published on 6 September 2005 by Jonathan Cape. ''Shalimar the Clown'' derives its name from Shalimar Gardens, in the vici ...

'', 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

* , a Royal Navy ship * Shalimar (perfume), the flagship fragrance of perfume house Guerlain *

Frank Coutts Hendry Frank Coutts Hendry OBE, MC (1875–1955) served in the Indian Army Reserve, Merchant Navy, Rangoon Pilot Service, was an Indian Army officer, and author. His Military Cross is in the Royal Museums Greenwich collections. Several of his books ...

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