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Pagdi Rakhna

पगड़ी रखना
Meaning

To protect someone's honour and dignity.

Literally: to keep someone's turban (on their head)

See it in the verse

Pagdi Rakhna in Iqbal’s couplets

Mazhab nahin sikhata aapas mein bair rakhna
Hindi hain hum, watan hai Hindostan hamara
Religion does not teach us to hold enmity among ourselves. We are of Hind, and Hindustan is our homeland.
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