{"book":"adl0970","page":171,"text":"128\n\nsuspicious of the other. Earlier the King had listened to his advice, but Shah's success on the various fronts led him to attach too much importance to his own valour and prowess. Henceforth he treated the Vazier with contempt and would attach no importance to his counsels.\n\nThe Vazier was, therefore, on the lookout for a chance to avenge his grievances against the Shah. An attempt was made to raise Prince Abbas to the throne at Kabul. The plan did not succeed, but it gave a chance to the ex-King, Mahmud, to make good his escape from the Bala Hissar. Reaching Girishk, he joined hands with Fateh Khan.\n\nThe Shah, attaching little importance to this, resolved to proceed to Sindh. In his absence from the capital, Mukhtarud-daula proclaimed Kaisar King of Kabul. The two then marched on Peshawar, which they occupied without much resistance. The Shah set out for Peshawar and met the rebels at Tahkal, in the suburbs of the city. The death of the Vazier in the struggle decided the battle in favour of the Shah. Kaiser was imprisoned and brought before the Shah","chars":1071,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00171.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/171","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/171","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."}}