{"book":"adl0957","page":196,"text":"151\n\nat Peshawar for the purpose of discussing ways and means of\nmutual defence against the threatened invasion of Afghanistan\nand India. The Mission was warmly received and resulted in\nthe conclusion of a treaty of friendship (June 7, 1809).\n\nHardly had the Mission left Peshawar when news was\nreceived that Kabul had been occupied by Mahmoud and Fateh\nKhan. The month of June had not come to a close before it\nwas evident that the Shah's cause was hopeless. After a short\nencounter near Gandomak, Shah Shuja's forces were routed,\nwhile he, turning off, withdrew beyond the border to await a\nfavourable opportunity.\n\nThe Rise of the Barakzais: Shah Shuja, after making\nfutile efforts to recover his throne, was at last imprisoned at\nPeshawar and carried off to Kashmir. In 1812, however, he\nwas able to make good his escape. He came to Lahore hoping\nto get the help of Ranjit Singh, ruler of the Panjab, in regaining\nhis lost throne. Contrary to his expectations, the Sikh ruler\ntreated him badly and robbed him of the famous diamond,\nKoh-i-Noor. The fugitive monarch, after various vicissitudes,\nultimately took refuge under the British at Ludhiana.\n\nThe Barakzais were now dominant throughout the country.\nThis incited the jealousy of Kamran, Mahmoud's eldest son.\nHe began looking for an opportunity to bring ruin upon Fateh\nKhan and his influential brothers. In 1816, a powerful Persian\narmy advanced on Herat. Haji Feroz-ud-Din, the Governor,\nappealed to his brother, Mahmoud for help. Fateh Khan set\nout in that direction. The Haji was made a prisoner and sent\nto Kabul under a strong escort. Dost Mohammad, a younger\nbrother of Fateh Khan, was appointed to seize the treasures.\nHis intrusion into the princesses' quarters in search of the","chars":1746,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00196.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/196","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/196","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."}}