{"book":"adl0970","page":46,"text":"15\n\nIt had fallen into ruins and was rebuilt during the\nreign of King Mohammed Nadir Shah-i-Shahid.\n\nShah Mahmud (1716—1725).—Mir Vais Khan\nleft two sons behind, Mir Mahmud and Mir\nHussein, who were both of tender age. The\nelders of the tribe therefore elected Abdul Aziz,\nthe deceased Khan's brother, to the throne. But\nhe proved to be a coward. Thinking that it was\nimpossible to hold his own against the two\npowerful neighbours at one and the same time,\nhe decided to side with Persians and submit his\nallegiance to the Shah. Mir Mahmud, though\nhe was only 18 at the time, could not see the\nefforts of his illustrious father thus thrown to\nthe winds. He consulted some of the faithful\nfollowers of his father on this point. They all\nagreed with him and promised whole-hearted\nhelp. Whereupon he rose against his uncle, and\nentering the royal palace, killed him with his\nown hand and ascended the throne with the title\nof Shah.\n\nAt this time the Abdalis of Herat, encouraged\nby the successes of the Hotakis at Kandahar, took\nup arms and killed the Persian Governor of Herat\nand declared their independence. The Persian","chars":1120,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00046.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/46","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/46","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."}}