{"book":"adl0970","page":20,"text":"vii\n\nof the Afghans throughout India. He himself in his \"Memoirs,\" bitterly complains of the opposition that he had to face in various parts of the country at the hands of the Afghans. He writes in this connection : \"The Afghan governors of the provinces put their fortifications in defence and refused to submit or obey. Kanauj, with the whole country beyond the Ganges, was entirely in the possession of refractory Afghans, such as Nassar Khan, Maruf Farmuli, and a number of other Afghan chiefs, who were in a state of open rebellion. They had elected Bihar Khan (or Bahadur Khan), son of Darya Khan, as their king, and gave him the name of Sultan Mahmud.\"\n\nOn February 2, 1528, Babur set out to fight the Afghans, who had advanced from Bihar into Doab and had driven out the Imperial forces from Shamsabad. Though successful for a while, he could not achieve his object and the Afghans refused to pay homage to him and accept him as their over-lord.\n\nIn another part of his \"Memoirs\" Babur again complains in these words : \"Sher Khan","chars":1037,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00020.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/20","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/20","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."}}