Shalimar or Shalamar may refer to: * Shalimar Gardens (disambiguation), three historic royal

Mughal gardens A Mughal garden is a type of garden built by the Mughal Empire, Mughals. This style was influenced by the Persian gardens particularly the Charbagh structure, which is intended to create a representation of an earthly utopia in which humans c ...

(or baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia: **

Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar Shalimar Bagh ( ; ) is a Mughal garden in Srinagar of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, located at the northeast of Dal Lake. It is also known as Shalimar Garden, Farah Baksh, and Faiz Baksh. The other famous shoreline garden in the vi ...

, Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619 **

Shalimar Gardens, Lahore The Shalamar Gardens () or Shalimar Gardens () are a Mughal garden complex besides Baghbanpura, located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The gardens date from the period when the Mughal Empire was at its artistic and aesthetic zenith, and are now ...

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

Shalimar Bagh, Delhi Shalimar Bagh also known as Shalimar Garden is a Mughal garden located 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 as a tribute and replica of Shalimar Bagh ...

, India; built in 1653

South Asia

* Shalimar Garden, Ghaziabad, an area in Ghaziabad, India *

Shalimar, Lahore Shalimar (Punjabi, ) 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 historic Gran ...

, one of the constituent towns of Lahore, Pakistan **

Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences (abbreviated as SIHS), named after Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a medical complex and an umbrella organization providing health care and medical services. It consists of Shalamar Hospital, Shalamar Nursing ...

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Shalamar Hospital Shalamar Hospital, established in 1982 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a non-profit hospital A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized Medical Science, health science a ...

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Shalamar Medical and Dental College Shalamar Medical and Dental College (abbreviated as SMDC) and named after Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a Private College of Medicine and Dentistry located in Lahore. It was established in 2009. Shalamar Hospital and Fauji Foundation Hospital La ...

Shalimar railway station Shalimar railway station (SHM) is a Railway Terminus located in Shibpur, Howrah of West Bengal. It is one of five large intercity railway stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan region, India. The other stations are Sealdah, Howrah, Kolkat ...

, serving Howrah and Kolkata, India ** Shalimar rail yard *

Shalimar Express The 14645 / 14646 Shalimar Express is a daily train between Jaisalmer railway station, Jaisalmer and Jammu Tawi. It is operated by the Northern Railways. Its number is 14645/14646. It comes in the Non Superfast (Mail/Express) trains category o ...

, train between Delhi and Jammu Tawi, India *

Shalimar Express (Pakistan) Shalimar Express () 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–Peshawar ...

, train between Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan

Other places

* Shalimar, alternative name of

Shadmehr Shadmehr () is a city in, and the capital of, Shadmehr District of Mahvelat County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It bord ...

, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *

Shalimar, Florida Shalimar is a town in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Crestview– Fort Walton Beach–Destin, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 737 at the 2020 census, up from 717 at the 2010 census ...

, a town in the United States

Music

Shalamar Shalamar () is an American R&B and soul music vocal group created by Dick Griffey and Don Cornelius in 1977 and active throughout the 1980s. Shalamar's classic lineup on the SOLAR label consisted of Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey D ...

, a soul-R&B group * "

Kashmiri Song "Kashmiri Song" or "Pale Hands I Loved" is a 1902 song by Amy Woodforde-Finden based on a poem by Laurence Hope, pseudonym of Violet Nicolson. The poem first appeared in Hope's first collection of poems, '' The Garden of Kama'' (1901), also kn ...

" (1902), also known by its first line "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar" * A river in "The Hippopotamus Song" by

Flanders and Swann Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo and musicians. Michael Flanders (1922–1975) was a lyricist, actor, and singer. He collaborated with Donald Swann (1923–1994), a composer and pianist, in writing and performing comedy music, comic ...

Film and literature

* ''Shalimar'' (1946 film), a 1946 Bollywood film * ''Shalimar'' (1978 film), a 1978 Bollywood film * ''Shalimar'', a book by Indian writer

Manohar Malgonkar Manohar Malgonkar (12 July 1913 – 14 June, 2010) was an Indian author of both fiction and nonfiction in the English language. He was also an army officer, a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine owner and a farmer. Life Malgonkar was born ...

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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 Garden, 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-class ferry, Indian Navy *

Shalimar (perfume) Shalimar is a perfume originally created by Jacques Guerlain in 1921 for French perfume and cosmetics house Guerlain. In production continuously since 1925, Shalimar is currently a flagship product for Guerlain. History Shalimar was created b ...

, 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 w ...

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