{"book":"adl0970","page":125,"text":"the Sikhs over to his side. With this intention he\ngranted the Sirhind-Patiala State to an influential\nSikh chief. This measure, too, proved futile, for\nhardly had Ahmad Shah left the country, when the\nSikhs, overrunning the greater part of the Punjab,\ntook the powerful fortress of Rohtas, near Jhelum,\nbuilt by Sher Shah Sur. The Shah was about to wipe\nout this disgrace when a fresh rebellion in Khurasan\ndiverted his attention in that direction. Henceforth,\nthe Panjab ceased to be the base of operations\nof the Afghans for their advance on Delhi.\n\nNasirullah Khan, son of Shah Rukh, had\ntaken up arms against Ahmad Shah with the\nfull support of the Persian nobles. The Afghan\nKing sent forward Timur, his son, in that direc-\ntion. The Prince, after a well-contested battle\nin the neighbourhood of Meshad, inflicted a severe\ndefeat on the Persians. Fleeing from the field\nthey took refuge with the blinded Shah Rukh\ninside the sacred city. Ahmad Shah, who had\ncome to the help of his son, now laid siege to it,\nintending to reduce the city by a prolonged\nblockade. The Persians, once more finding their\nposition untenable, surrendered. Ahmad Shah,\nhowever, treated Shah Rukh with every mark of","chars":1197,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00125.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/125","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/125","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."}}