{"book":"adl0970","page":181,"text":"138\n\nTHE FALL OF THE DURRANIS\n\nMahmud ascended the throne a second time in\n1809. The Barakzais were now dominant through-\nout the country, while Mahmud was content with\nthe pomp and show of royalty.\n\nFateh Khan, after placing Mahmud on the\nthrone and establishing order in the country,\nturned his attention towards the outlying provinces\nthat had asserted their independence during the\nturmoil. After compelling the rulers of Sindh\nand Baluchistan to tender their allegiance to the\nAfghan King, he resolved to recover Kashmir\nas well. Atta Mohammed Khan, the Governor\nof that place, after a short resistance, was forced\nto surrender unconditionally with his brother,\nGhulam Mohammad. Whereupon Jahandar\nKhan, Commandant of Attock Fort and a younger\nbrother of Atta Mohammed, was so enraged that\nhe handed over the Fort to the Sikhs on payment\nof 100,000 rupees. This treachery enabled the\nMaharaja to occupy a place of great strate-\ngical and commercial importance on the routes\nleading to Kashmir, Peshawar and the Panjab.\n\nFateh Khan after appointing Azim Khan,\none of his brothers, as Governor of Kashmir,","chars":1108,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00181.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/181","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/181","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."}}