{"book":"adl0970","page":133,"text":"96\n\nMir Fateh Ali Khan Talpuri was confirmed as the ruler on payment of an annual tribute to the Afghan King. From this time onwards, Sindh became almost independent and paid but a nominal homage to the Afghan Crown.\n\nNext the Shah was confronted with another rebellion in Kashmir. Hardly was this revolt put down, when a new one broke out in Balkh, instigated by Shah Murad Beg of Bukhara. At the same time another insurrection broke out at Bahawalpur. The Shah, collecting a large force, marched first to the north. At Aqchah some indecisive actions took place, the balance on the whole being in favour of the Afghans. Had they then forced the enemy to a general engagement, their success would have been inevitable. But Timur, content with small skirmishes, gave the enemy sufficient time to reorganize his army and to make use of gold in bribing some of the Afghan officers, who persuaded the Shah to come to terms with the King of Bukhara. By the treaty which was finally agreed upon, the ruler of Bukhara recognised the authority of Timur over Balkh and the adjoining districts lying south of the Oxus. What made the Shah con-","chars":1132,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00133.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/133","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/133","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."}}