{"book":"adl0970","page":37,"text":"6\nPersian Court asking the Shah to redress their\ngrievances. On reaching Isfahan, the deputies\nfound it impossible to contact the Shah. Gurgin's\npartisans, having discovered the motive of their\njourney, stood in the way and hindered their\nhaving an audience with the King.\n\nAccording to ancient custom, the King of\nPersia appeared in public only once a year, on the\nday of Naoroz, the new year's day, when even the\nhumblest subjects of the Shah had free access to\nhim. The Afghan deputies, availing of the opport-\nunity, laid their complaints before the King. But\nagain Gurgin's friends intervened and prevailed\nupon the Shah to dismiss the deputies as mal-\ncontents, unworthy of royal favours.\n\nMeanwhile, Gurgin was duly informed of\nwhat was passing at the Persian Court. Em-\nboldened by his success, he made up his mind\nto punish those who, he thought to be at the root\nof this national movement. Mir Vais Khan was\none of the most influential chiefs. Besides, he\nheld the office of Kalantar (Mayor) of the city of\nKandahar. His noble birth, his influence with\nthe tribes, his generosity and evidence of an","chars":1108,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00037.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/37","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/37","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."}}