{"book":"adl0970","page":105,"text":"68\n\nwhen Shahab-ud-din who had fled to Farrukhabad\nand taken shelter with the Marhattas, returned\nto Delhi and laid siege to it. Najib-ud-daula was\nforced to retire towards Saharanpur. The Vazier\nimmediately made Ahmad Khan Bangash the\nCommander-in-Chief of the Mughal Army. Not\ncontent with this, he invited the Marhattas to his\nhelp, for he knew that without their support he\ncould not keep up his position at Delhi.\n\nMeanwhile Ahmad Shah was busy in other\nquarters and could not pay his attention to what\nwas going on at the Mughal capital. A serious\ndisturbance had broken out in the Panjab.\nAdina Beg, who had fled from Lahore on the\napproach of the Afghan king, now reappeared\non the scene and instigated the Sikhs to rebel.\nHe also invited the Marhattas to assist him in the\nrecovery of the Panjab.\n\nRagunath, the brother of Peshwa, availing\nof the opportunity, advanced on the Panjab at\nthe head of a formidable force. Timur Mirza\nwas forced to fall back. After appointing Adina\nBeg to his former position, the Marhatta chief\nretired to the Deccan.","chars":1056,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00105.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/105","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/105","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_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."}}