{"book":"adl0970","page":13,"text":"\"Aryana or Ancient Afghanistan.\" It was printed\nat Kabul and published by the Society of His\ntorical Research. Unfortunately, no adequate\narrangements could be available for printing an\nEnglish book at the Capital. It is, therefore, full\nof mistakes, mostly of spellings, and sometimes it\nmakes a difficult reading.\nThe second part is not yet fully compiled and\nmay take a year or so for its completion. The\npresent volume entitled \"The National Awaken\ning\" is the third in the series and deals exclusively\nwith the history of two prominent Afghan dynas\nties—the Hotakis and the Durranis.\nI acknowledge my heart-felt gratitude to the\nPress Department and the Asia Foundation in\nthis connection. But for their encouragement\nand help, moral as well as material, the author\ncould have hardly thought of undertaking such an\nonerous task.\nMOHAMMED ALI\nShershahmena,\nKabul, Afghanistan.\n1st February, 1958.","chars":900,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00013.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/13","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/13","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."}}