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The town is named after the Shalimar Gardens, built by Emperor Shah Jehan in 1640. [4] The Mela Chiraghan festival used to take place at Shalimar Gardens, until President Ayub Khan ordered against it in 1958. Shalimar was officially declared a township in 1962 and became an administrative town (tehsil) of Lahore City District in 2001.
Shalimar Garden is a residential and commercial locality in the North Western part of the city of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.It comprises three wards of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and accordingly has three major divisions, viz. Shalimar Garden (Main), Shalimar Garden Extension-I and Shalimar Garden Extension-II.
Salman Rushdie's 2005 novel Shalimar the Clown refers to the garden in its title as well as the name of the central character who "has turned from a benign, tightrope-walking clown in a Kashmiri village into a Muslim terrorist". [17] [18] The fiction deals with the fate of Kashmir in a world steeped in terrorism as it moves from California to ...
The Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam (GNN), also known as Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) is the civic body that governs Ghaziabad city. Established under the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act-1959, it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city.It covers area equal to 210 square kilometres.
Shalimar or Shalamar may refer to: Shalimar Gardens (disambiguation) , three historic royal Mughal gardens (or baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia: Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619
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, Kashmir, laid by erstwhile Mughal emperor Jahangir in 1619, the Shalimar Bagh of Delhi is now abandoned but still houses shade trees, majestic parterre ...
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.
Inside Shalimar Gardens Shalimar Gardens in 1895 Construction of the gardens began on 12 June 1641, and took 18 months to complete. [ 2 ] During the Sikh era , much of the garden's marble was pillaged and used to decorate the Golden Temple and the Ram Bagh Palace in nearby Amritsar , [ 9 ] while the gardens' costly agate gate was stripped and ...