Shalimar Explained

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
  • Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences
    • Shalamar Hospital
    • Shalamar Medical and Dental College
• 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

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