{"book":"adl0957","page":198,"text":"153\n\nand Jalalabad fell to the lot of Dost Mohammad Khan (1826).\nHe thus became the most powerful of the Barakzai Sardars.\nFive of his half-brothers jointly ruled Kandahar.\n\nDost Mohammad Khan or the Grand Amir (1826—\n1839) : Dost Mohammad Khan is the founder of the Barakzai or\nMohammadzai dynasty, which is still in power. As soon as his\nposition was secure at Kabul, he made up his mind to recover\nPeshawar. Dost Mohammad could not forget that Peshawar\nwas an integral part of Afghanistan and that the Sikhs had\noccupied it during the confusion that followed the death of\nVazir Fateh Khan. He resolved to wrest it from the Sikhs\nby force. Assuming the title of Amir-ul-Mominin, (the Leader of\nthe Faithful) he declared a religious war and called upon his\npeople to join in his expedition. At their head he advanced\nupon Peshawar, but the shrewd Sikh leader, finding himself too\nweak to meet him in open field, sowed treason and dissension\nin the Amir's camp. The result was that the invading army\nmelted away and Peshawar was lost to the Amir.\n\nIn November 1837, Mohammad Shah of Persia laid siege\nto Herat. The Russians, anxious to have the Persians com-\npensate themselves with Afghan territory for Russian conquests\nof Persian territories in the Caucasus, supported the Persians.\nThe British, fearful that Persia was falling completely under\nRussian influence, determined to enter into alliances with the\nrulers of Herat, Kabul and Kandahar. With this view a\nmission was sent to Kabul under Capt. Burnes. Dost Mohammad\nKhan was not disinclined to welcome a power from which he\nexpected support in his attempts to recover Peshawar. But he\nwas unable to obtain from the envoy the assurances which he","chars":1703,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00198.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/198","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/198","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."}}