{"book":"adl0970","page":132,"text":"95\n\nmuch detested by the people, who would not trust\nthe Shah's word any more. This was the second\ncause which led to Timur Shah's unpopularity.\n\nAbout this time the news was brought that\nthe Sikhs had taken possession of Multan through\nthe treachery of its governor. Timur Shah went\nin person to punish the invaders. A small force\nwas sent in advance, which was able to lead a\nsurprise attack and turn the Sikhs out of their\nnewly acquired possessions.\n\nThe Talpuris of Sindh now began to give\ntrouble. They rose against the Afghan governor\nof the district and turned him out. Madad Khan\nwas dispatched to punish the insurgents. Break-\ning the resistance of the rebels he overran the\nwhole province. But soon after his return to\nKandahar, the Talpuris once more rose in arms\nand expelled the governor. A second army com-\nmanded by Ahmad Khan Nurzai, a raw inex-\nperienced officer, was sent that way. But he was\ndefeated with great loss and the Afghan army\nhad to fall back on Shikarpur. The Talpuri sent\ntheir representatives to the Shah to discuss the\nterms of peace. As a result of these negotiations","chars":1103,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00132.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/132","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/132","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."}}