{"book":"adl0970","page":110,"text":"73\n\ncavalry alone harass the Afghans, who, in their\nopinion, could not stand the intense heat of India.\nThe rainy season of the country, they argued,\nwould soon compel the Afghans to retire to their\nhomeland. But the haughty Marhatta chief,\npuffed up by his recent successes in other parts of\nIndia, rejected this counsel and looked down on\nvictory thus achieved as below his dignity. He\nboldly marched on Delhi, then held by a small\ndetachment of the Afghans. The Marhattas had\nno difficulty in besieging the city, which surrendered\nafter a stubborn resistance. The Marhattas on\nentering the Mughal capital put the entire garrison\nto the sword.\n\nAhmad Shah, who had encamped on the left\nbank of the Jamna with a view to pass the rainy\nseason could not come to the assistance of his\nmen ; the swollen river made crossing impossible.\nThe Marhattas looted the city to their heart's\ncontent. They defaced palaces, tombs and shrines\nfor the sake of the ornaments with which they\nhad been decorated. Bhao even proposed to\nproclaim Viswas Rao emperor of India, but others\nadvised him to postpone it until the Durranis\nwere driven across the Indus.","chars":1141,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00110.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/110","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/110","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."}}