{"book":"adl0970","page":146,"text":"105\n\nbody complained that the King was taking no\nactive part in the management of public affairs\nand was only a mouthpiece of his crafty Vazier.\nThe Minister could make a puppet of the King\nbut he could not wipe out the free spirit of the\nchiefs by his oppressions or intrigues. Alarmed at\ntheir growing influence, Wafadar Khan resolved\nto destroy them all, but his efforts in this direction\nfinally proved his ruin, as well as that of the\nSovereign himself. A number of these disgusted\nSardars conspired to assassinate the Vazier, depose\nZaman Shah, and place his brother, Shujaul-Mulk,\non the throne. They were also aiming at a con-\nstitutional monarchy. The plot was, however,\ndiscovered by the treachery of Mirza Sharif Khan,\none of the conspirators. Whereupon the ring-\nleaders, including Sardar Payanda Khan, head of\nthe Barakzais, Mohammed Azim Khan, chief of\nthe Alokozais and Amir Arsalan Khan of the\nJewansher clan, were arrested and executed.\n\nBesides, a large number of other influential nobles,\nwho had absolutely no share in the plot, fell\nvictim to the envy and fear of Wafadar Khan.\n\nThis cold-blooded wholesale massacre of the","chars":1143,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00146.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/146","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/146","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."}}