{"book":"adl0957","page":213,"text":"166\n\nboth sides of the route. They went wild with enthusiasm and\ndelight at the sight of their deliverer. Sardar Mohammad Nadir\nKhan was obviously moved by the extraordinary warmth of\nthe greetings and kept his hand raised in continuous salute,\nbowing to each side as he rode through the streets of Kabul.\n\nIn a Jirga held at Salamkhana, Sardar Mohammad Nadir\nKhan was unanimously elected King.\n\nKing Mohammad Nadir Shah: King Mohammad Nadir\nShah, the second son of Sardar Mohammad Yousuf Khan was\nborn on April 9, 1883. In him were united the two royal houses\nof Mohammadzais and Sadozais. On his father's side he was the\ngreat grandson of Sardar Sultan Mohammad Khan, brother of\nAmir Dost Mohammad Khan, the founder of the Mohammadzai\ndynasty, and from his mother's side he descended from Ahmad\nShah Abdali (1747-73), founder of modern Afghanistan.\n\nDuring the reign of Amir Habibullah Khan, Sardar\nMohammad Nadir Khan and the members of his family, all\nmen of great ability and exceptional administrative capacity,\ndid their best for the advancement of the country. The family\ncontinued to serve Afghanistan during the early days of\nAmanullah Khan, and never willingly withdrew its co-operation.\nIt was due to their heroic actions in the Third Anglo-Afghan\nWar that the country gained its independence.\n\nThe first aim of the King upon his succession was to restore\npeace and order. At the age of 47, he embarked on a task\nthat might have daunted the bravest and wisest of diplomats.\nProbably nowhere in history do we find a sovereign so financially\nhandicapped at the start. It was probably the first case of a\nnational exchequer being absolutely bankrupt, unlined even\nwith a single silver coin. In spite of all these obstacles, King\nNadir Shah applied himself at once to the task that lay before","chars":1800,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00213.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/213","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/213","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."}}