{"book":"adl0970","page":167,"text":"124\n\nnow released from confinement and restored to\nhis family (1803).\n\nShujaul Mulk (1803 to 1809).—The new King,\nthough young and energetic, had not the ability of\nrestoring order in a country torn by internal dis-\nsensions and anarchy for more than a decade. The\nChiefs all over the country had become powerful\nand unruly, and the outlying provinces were trying\nto assert their independence. These internecine\nwars had nearly sapped the resources of the\ncountry. Shuja's first act on ascending the throne\nwas to raise funds to equip an army as well as to\ngratify those who had helped him in gaining the\nthrone. The exhausted resources of the country\ncould hardly meet these demands. The Shah was,\ntherefore, obliged to give large portions of his\nrevenue in grants to the Sardars, who became all\nthe more powerful. Mukhtarud-daula was appoint-\ned Vazier, though the Shah could hardly trust his\nloyalty. Lack of trust between the Shah and the\nVazier further deteriorated the situation. The\nslightest provocation from the Court would drive\na noble into open rebellion.\n\nShah Shuja, after raising funds and equipping\nan army, marched on Kandahar, held by Prince","chars":1159,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00167.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/167","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/167","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."}}