{"book":"adl0957","page":207,"text":"160\n\nLytton, therefore, deemed it advisable to break up the country\ninto small principalities governed by British puppets. Kandahar\nwas promised to Vali Sher Ali, a Barakzai of Kandahar. No\nspecial arrangements were necessary for Herat, where Ayoub\nKhan, full brother of Yakoub Khan, still maintained himself\nin power. It was decided to retain Kabul under direct British\nadministration.\nOpportunely, there now appeared upon the scene the strong\nman so badly needed. It was a grandson of Dost Mohammad,\nAbdur Rahman. Since 1868, he had lived in banishment beyond\nthe Oxus, under Russian protection. He no sooner reappeared\nthan the patriots rallied around him. At this time Lord Lytton\nresigned his office and the Conservative Government suffered a\nsevere defeat in the general elections. Gladstone succeeded Lord\nBeaconsfield as Prime Minister and Lord Ripon was sent out as\nViceroy to bring about a peaceful settlement of the Afghan\nquestion. Abdur Rahman Khan was finally recognized as Amir\nof Kabul and Great Britain bound herself not to require the\nadmission of an English Resident anywhere in Afghanistan.\nAbdur Rahman succeeded to a much reduced kingdom. Herat\nwas under the control of Ayoub Khan, while Kandahar was\nruled by Vali Sher Ali, a British puppet.\nThe Battle of Maiwand: Ayoub Khan, declaring a\nreligious war, came out of Herat with the intention of driving\nthe British out of Afghanistan. At Maiwand, on the 27th of\nJuly, 1880, he met and defeated a British force led by General\nBurrows, which had been sent to check his advance. This was\nas the Britith themselves have admitted, \"One of the most\nnotable victories ever gained by oriental troops in conflict with a\nEuropean army\". The British had 914 men killed and were\ndriven back in full retreat.","chars":1767,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00207.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/207","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/207","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."}}