{"book":"adl0970","page":178,"text":"135\nUnfortunately, in the midst of battle, a bullet\nstruck him through the chest and the brave and\nfaithful general fell dead on the ground.\nThe death of Akram Khan had a demoralizing\neffect on the King, who deemed it decisive and\nthought fit that further resistance was useless.\nSubmitting, therefore, to what he called his fate,\nhe turned off and made for the skirts of the Speen\nGhar.\nStill he did not give up the contest and was\nhopeful of his ultimate victory. He withdrew\nbeyond the Frontier and waited for favourable\nopportunity. After a short time he marched on\nPeshawar and took the Bala Hissar without much\nresistance. But his good luck was of a very\nshort duration. The chiefs, on whom he relied\nmost, were bribed by Atta Muhammad Khan,\nthe Governor of Kashmir, to seize the person\nof the Shah. They accordingly escaladed the\nBala Hissar, seized the royal person and carried\nhim off to Kashmir. The Governor would\noffer him release only if he gave up the famous\nKoh-i-Noor diamond. But the Shah refused to\nsurrender this precious jewel. So he remained\nin captivity for full one year.","chars":1094,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00178.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/178","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/178","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."}}