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The Chiragan festival, or festival of lamps, is held in honour of the Muslim Saint ’Abd al-Qadir Jilani. The Shalimar gardens, six miles east of Lahore, were laid out in 1641 by Shah Jehan.
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Pinney, T. (1986). A Popular Picnic. In: Pinney, T. (eds) Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07710-6_27
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