{"book":"adl0957","page":212,"text":"165\npeople to see their country develop along modern lines, but\nrather in the political manœuvring of ouside elements.\nDuring the ensuing period of almost one full year of civil\nwars the throne of Kabul witnessed one of the most dramatic\nevents of all time when a highwayman named Habibullah seized\nthe power and declared himself King. Thus, among other\ndestructive results of the civil wars, most of Afghanistan’s\npolitical leaders were killed, banished or imprisoned.\nAt this time Sardar Mohammad Nadir was in Paris where\nhe had been sent as Afghan Minister some time after his promo-\ntion to the rank of Marshal and Minister of War in the first\nCabinet of independent Afghanistan. Hearing the news from\nhome, he left France and returned in haste to Afghanistan,\nwhere the people found in him the leader they needed to deliver\nthe country from its miserable domination by the bandit-king.\nOn 25th January, 1929, Sardar Mohammad Nadir Khan,\naccompanied by his brothers, Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan\nand Sardar Shah Wali Khan, left for Afghanistan. Sardar\nShah Mahmoud Khan, their younger brother, who was then\nin Kabul, went to meet them at the Afghan border. The three\nhad a long talk, wherein Sardar Shah Mahmoud give all details\nof the revolt, with its attendant horrors.\nFrom March until October 1929, the struggle for deliver-\nance continued, the brothers playing an important part in this\ndrama. Routed again and again, they ever rose with fresh\nhearts from the disaster, till at last on October 16, their efforts\nwere crowned with success. The bandit-king was driven out\nof the capital, and peace was restored. The warm welcome\nwhich Sardar Mohammad Nadir Khan received at Kabul was\nnever excelled by that accorded to a triumphant Cæsar.\nThousands of people from all parts of the country had lined","chars":1804,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00212.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/212","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/212","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."}}