{"book":"adl0957","page":192,"text":"147\n\nTHE DURRANIS (Variously called Abdalis & Sadozais):\nAfter the death of Nadir Shah, Ahmad Khan Abdali with his\ncontingent of 4,000 Afghans returned to Kandahar. There in\nOctober, 1747, a tribal Jirga was held to consider the future of\nthe country, and to elect a king of their own. Everyone of the\ntribal chiefs put forth his claim. So heated did the discussion\nand dissensions become that a recourse to arms seemed imminent.\nAt this critical moment, Sabar, a respectable dervish, intervened\non behalf of Ahmad Khan. Making a wreath of sheaves of\nwheat, he put it on Ahmad Khan's head and said, \"May this\nserve you as a crown\". The choice was approved by all and\nAhmad Khan became the elected King of the Afghans.\n\nAhmad Shah Durrani (1747-1773): Ahmad Shah was\na chief of the Sadozai clan, a branch of the Abdalis. On his\naccession he took the title of Dur-i-Durran (Pearl of the Age). So\nthis family has come to be known as Abdalis, Sadozais or\nDurranis.\n\nAhmad Shah, though very young at this time (for he was\nhardly twenty-five) proved himself to be a capable ruler. His\nfirst object was to sccure the affection of his people and to wold\nthem into a strong nation. His popular manners, combined\nwith his courage, activity, vigilance and other martial virtues,\nsoon endeared him to all of his people, and he became the idol of\nhis nation who gave him the title of 'Baba' -Father of the\nNation.\n\nWithin a short space of a quarter of a century, he was not\nonly able to liberate Afghanistan from foreign yoke, but also\ncarried his victorious arms from Meshed to Kashmir, & Delhi,\nand from the Oxus to the Arabian Sea.","chars":1621,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00192.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/192","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/192","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."}}