{"book":"adl0970","page":179,"text":"136\n\nSHAH MAHMUD\n(AGAIN FROM 1809—1818)\n\nAt this time Mahmud sent a force to Kashmir\nunder Vazier Fateh Khan. Atta Mohammed\nKhan advanced to give battle, but being deserted\nby most of his followers, he fell back on Srinagar.\nUltimately, seeing resistance useless, he made his\nsubmission to Fateh Khan. Shah Shuja, released\nfrom captivity, left for Lahore. Ranjit Singh\nreceived him warmly, but it soon became clear\nthat he too coveted the famous Diamond.\n\nShortly after his arrival, the Maharaja sent\nRam Singh to him demanding the Koh-i-noor.\nShah Shuja replied that when real friendship was\nestablished he would give it to him. Ranjit Singh\nwas in no mood to brook delay. He resorted\nto other means to extort it from the luckless\nKing. He offered assistance in troops and\ntreasure if the Shah wanted to recover his throne.\nThen an exchange of turbans took place and the\nShah gave him the coveted precious stone.\n\nRanjit Singh did not fulfil his part of the\ncontract. On the contrary, as time advanced,\nthe condition of the King became still more\nhopeless. At last he decided to fly away and find","chars":1097,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00179.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/179","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/179","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."}}