{"book":"adl0957","page":11,"text":"His Majesty King Mohammed Zahir Shah was born in\nKabul on October 15, 1914. Studied first at Habibia and\nIstiqlal Schools, Kabul. In July 1924 proceeded to France\nfor higher education and studied at the following institutions:\nJeanson de Sally College\nPasteur College\nMontpellier School\nIn 1930 His Majesty returned to Afghanistan and underwent\nmilitary training in Kabul. During the reign of his father was\nappointed acting minister of the Ministry of National Defence\nand the Ministry of Education. The last post he held until the\nmartyrdom of his father on November 8, 1933.","chars":577,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00011.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/11","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/11","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}