{"book":"adl0957","page":211,"text":"164\n\nwhich the British recognized the independence of Afghanistan.\nAt the invitation of the British Government a delegation, under\nthe leadership of Mahmud Tarzi (Foreign Minister), was sent to\nIndia to negotiate for peace and a treaty of friendship. This\ntreaty was finally ratified in Kabul in 1922. Meanwhile Aman-\nullah succeeded in establishing diplomatic relations for\nAfghanistan with the outside world. Russia recognized the\nindependent Government of the country and was soon followed\nby Afghanistan's other neighbours, later to be joined by the\ncountries of Europe.\n\nHaving achieved this goal, Amanullah started to introduce\nreforms inside the country and to prepare his people to meet\nrequirements of a modern international life, not only with the\ncountries if Asia, but also with the Western World. This move-\nment in Afghanistan resulted in invitations being extended to the\nKing to visit several European countries. By the time Amanullah\nreturned from Europe, the impression of all he had seen there\nhad quite obliterated his preconceived ideas and made him\neager to introduce the western way of life with revolutionary\nswiftness into his own country. Afghanistan, in spite of some\npolitical designs orginating outside the country, was once more\nbecoming a strong power in Central Asia.\n\nAlthough the King's reforms met with opposition from a\ncertain group of reactionaries who were rigidly and conserva-\ntively against the modernization of the country, this opposition\nwas confined to one section of the population only which, though\nvociferous, was not strong enough to maintain its stand. The\nfierce civil war which broke out in the country and later resulted\nin the abdication of King Amanullah and his departure from\nthe country had its real cause not, as the misrepresentations of\nsome writers have tried to prove, in the reluctance of the Afghan","chars":1865,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00211.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/211","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/211","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."}}