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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 vicini ...
, 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 tribu ...
, 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 **
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 Nursin ...
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Shalamar Hospital Shalamar Hospital, established in 1982 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, is a non-profit charitable hospital, hospital located on Shalimar Link Road, Lahore in Shalimar Town. It was founded in 1982 by a Pakistani businessm ...
*** 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), train between Karachi and Lahore


Other places

* Shalimar, alternative name of Shadmehr, a small city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *
Shalimar, Florida Shalimar is a town in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 717 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Fort Walton Beach– Crestview– Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Shalimar is located at ( ...
, a town in the United States


Music

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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 "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 kno ...
" (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. Lyricist, actor and singer Michael Flanders (1922–1975) and composer and pianist Donald Swann (1923–1994) collaborated in writing and performing comic songs. They first worked together in a s ...


Film and literature

* ''Shalimar'' (1946 film), a 1946 Bollywood film * ''Shalimar'' (1978 film), a 1978 Hindi film * ''Shalimar'', a book by
Manohar Malgonkar Manohar Malgonkar (Marathi: 2 July 1913- 14 June, 2010[karwar district, 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. Li ...
* ''Shalimar the Clown'', a 2005 novel by Salman Rushdie * Shalimar Fox, a character in Mutant X (TV series), ''Mutant X'' (TV series) * A town in Song of Solomon (novel), ''Song of Solomon'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Toni Morrison


Other uses

* , a Royal Navy ship *
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 ...
, 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 ...
, used the pseudonym Shalimar {{disambiguation, geo