{"book":"adl0970","page":6,"text":"CONTENTS\nPreface\nIntroduction i-xvi\nPART I-THE HOTAKIS\nRise of the Hotakis 1-14\nMir Vais Khan 14-15\nShah Mahmud 15-30\nShah Ashraff 30-44\nNadir Shah of Persia 44-54\nPART II-THE DURRANIS\nRise of Durranis 56-57\nAhmad Shah Durrani 57-90\nTimur Shah 91-97\nZaman Shah 98-115\nShah Mahmud 116-123\nShah Shuja 124-135\nShah Mahmud (again) 136-137\nThe fall of the Durrani's 138-140","chars":368,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00006.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/6","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/6","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."}}