{"book":"adl0970","page":180,"text":"137\n\na peaceful asylum somewhere else. He remem-\nbered the friendly overtures of the British and\nmade up his mind to go to them. Ranjit Singh\nwould not let him go. Eight soldiers guarded\nhis residence at night. However, a hole through\nthe ceiling was made, and the ex-King, leaving a\nfaithful servant to sleep on his bed, escaped\nthrough the hole in the guise of a mendicant,\nattended by two of his faithful servants. Instead\nof making for the British territories, Shah Shuja\nturned his face toward Jammu, where he was\nwarmly received by the Raja of Kishtwar. After\nan ineffective attempt to recover Kashmir with\nthe assistance of the Raja, the Shah finally left\nfor Ludhiana, and placed himself under British\nprotection (September, 1816).","chars":739,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00180.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/180","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/180","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."}}