{"book":"adl0970","page":131,"text":"94\n\ndeprived of his eyesight. From 1775 to 1781\nTimur was confronted with major uprisings on\nvarious fronts, including Balkh, Seistan, Khura-\nsan and Kashmir. Of these the insurrection of\nSahibzada of Chamkani, which took place in 1779,\ndeserves special notice. The conspirators aimed\nat dethroning Timur Shah and placing Iskandar,\nSulaiman's son, on the throne. Some prominent\nchiefs of the Mohmands and Khyber Afridis also\ntook part in this conspiracy. Collecting a large\nforce, the conspirators suddenly entered the royal\ncitadel (Bala Hissar) at Peshawar through the\nconnivance of the Commander of the Guard.\nThe Shah took shelter in one of the towers. All\nwould have been over, had not the Kizilbash\nRegiment come to his assistance. The conspira-\ntors were soon overpowered and made to flee. A\nlarge number of them were killed in the action.\nFaizullah Khan, one of the ring-leaders, was taken\nprisoner and put to death. The Mohmand Chief,\nwho had escaped this general slaughter, was\nprevailed upon by an oath, sworn on the Kuran,\nto submit. No sooner did he make his submission\nand surrender himself to the Shah than he was\ntortured to death. This breach of faith was very","chars":1177,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00131.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/131","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/131","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."}}