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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