{"book":"adl0957","page":202,"text":"157\n\nunrighteous war beyond the boundaries of India, shedding the\nblood, and interfering with the independence of a people with\nwhom we had not a pretext of quarrel.......The terrible Afghan\nexpedition made an indelible impression on the minds of the\nAfghans. It is certainly true that so far as the military honour\nand reputation of England is concerned, these were speedily\nreasserted and vindicated, but it was impossible for the Indian\nGovernment to win the confidence of the Afghans\".\n\nDost Mohammad reigned till 1863, and during these twenty\nyears he was able to establish peace throughout the country. He\ndied at Herat, thirteen days after the capture of the city, and\nwas succeeded by his third son, Sher Ali Khan.\n\nAmir Sher Ali Khan: His elder brothers, Afzal Khan\nand Azam Khan, rose against him and for five years the Amir\nled a life of extraordinary vicissitude—now an outcast flying for\nhis life, now a ruler in a solitary outlying province, now the de\nfacto ruler of the greater part of the country. At last, in 1868,\nhe was able to establish his authority throughout Afghanistan.\n\nThe British, meanwhile, in pursuance of their Forward\nPolicy, were moving slowly ahead into the tribal area bordering\nAfghanistan. Advocates of this policy wished to see Afghanistan\nabsorbed within the British Indian Empire. In 1874, the For-\nward Policy gained the upper hand, and a series of negotiations\nwith Sher Ali Khan ensued during the following years. Finally,\nwhen the British saw that they could not achieve their object by\npeaceful means, they resorted to force and declared war on the\nAmir. Late in 1878, the British once more invaded Afghanistan.\nThis was the beginning of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-\n1881).","chars":1725,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00202.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/202","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/202","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."}}