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  2. Earnest Hooton - Wikipedia

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    Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, a group that "focused on the anatomy of blacks and reflected the racism of the time."

  3. Self-worth theory of motivation - Wikipedia

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    The quadripolar model of self-worth theory demonstrates an individual's behaviour under the motivation to protect the sense of self-worth, with the representation of dual motives to avoid failure and approach success. [1] [2] This two-dimensional model proposes four broad types of learners in terms of success oriented and failure avoidant. The ...

  4. Nordic race - Wikipedia

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    This theory was also supported by Coon's mentor Earnest Albert Hooton, who in the same year published Twilight of Man, which stated: "The Nordic race is certainly a depigmented offshoot from the basic long-headed Mediterranean stock. It deserves separate racial classification only because its blond hair (ash or golden), its pure blue or grey eyes".

  5. Muhammad Iqbal's concept of Khudi - Wikipedia

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    To him self is also synonymous with 'Soul' which is a matter of common occurrence in Sufi literature. [19] Human self or ego is the dominance of a particular self, subordinating and unifying all the other selves which constitute the mental life of man. [6] Iqbal in his Lectures says: "The ego reveals itself as a unity of what we call mental states.

  6. Urdu Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 19 January 2025, it has 216,693 articles, 189,456 registered users and 7,469 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...

  7. Hafiz Mehmood Khan Shirani - Wikipedia

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    Hafiz Mehmood Shirani (1880–16 February 1946) was an Indian researcher and poet during the British era [1] and father of Urdu poet Akhtar Sheerani. He started teaching Urdu at Islamia College, Lahore in 1921. [2] In 1928 he moved to Oriental College, Lahore. He was a researcher and his popular theory was "Punjab Mein Urdu" which made him famous.

  8. Martial race - Wikipedia

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    British and Indian officers of the 1st Brahmans, 1912.. Martial race was a designation which was created by army officials in British India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, in which they classified each caste as belonging to one of two categories, the 'martial' caste and the 'non-martial' caste.

  9. Nafs - Wikipedia

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    According to Ṣūfī philosophy, the focus of self-improvement is on one's internal struggles rather than external enemies. Instead of searching for enemies outside oneself, in such groupings as one's family, community, or society, Sufism teaches that the primary enemy to be conquered is one's ego-sensibility or individual self, known as nafs.