Shalimar

Shalimar is a Kashmiri term that may refer to:

In Pakistan and India

• Shalimar means abode of love.
• Shalimar Gardens, also called Shalimar Bagh, several royal gardens of the Mughal Empire. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's love for Mumtaz-Mahal, his favourite wife, was so great that he built her the Garden of Shalimar in Lahore (and indeed, the Taj Mahal).
  • Shalimar Bagh (Srinagar) (aka Shalimar Gardens (Jammu and Kashmir))
  • Shalimar Gardens (Lahore), Pakistan, built 1641 AD. Today the gardens still exist, though they are not well maintained. They are open to the public for a small fee.
  • Shalimar Bagh, Delhi, a locality in north-west Delhi, India, around the Shalimar Bagh (Garden), built 1653 AD.
• Shalimar, Pakistan in Lahore
  • Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences
    • Shalamar Hospital
    • Shalamar Medical and Dental College
• Shalimar Station, a rail station serving Howrah and Kolkata

In Iran

• Shalimar, alternate name of Shadmehr, a city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

In the United States

• Shalimar, Florida, a town

Music

• Shalamar, a soul-R&B group
• In his song, Madame George, Van Morrison sings 'And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through the cool night air like Shalimar'

Film and literature

• Shalimar (film), a Hindi movie released in 1978
• Shalimar (film aired in 1951)
• Shalimar, a book by Manohar Malgonkar
• Shalimar the Clown, a novel by Salman Rushdie
• A river in "The Hippopotamus Song" by Flanders and Swann
• "Pale hands I loved, beside the Shalimar". Opening line of Kashmiri Song, a romantic poem by Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson), set to music by Amy Woodforde-Finden.

Other uses

• HMS Shalimar (P242), a Royal Navy ship
• Shalimar, a diamond (gemstone)
• Shalimar (perfume), the flagship fragrance of perfume house Guerlain

Shalimar is a Persian term