{"book":"adl0970","page":79,"text":"44\n\nthat he had been put to death by a force which Mir Hussein of Kandahar had dispatched to intercept him. Thus ended in disaster the Afghan rule in Persia. Few of the Afghans escaped death, and hardly any one reached Kandahar.\nSuch was the end of this tragic episode. Many are the causes which have been ascribed to the fall of the Afghans in Persia. Foremost among these being that the Afghans could not forget their mutual jealousies even in a foreign land. Moreover, they were averse to emigration, which is essential for the permanent occupation of a foreign land. During their rule in Persia, their strength lay solely in a small armed force. Removed from their home by hundreds of miles, they did not have adequate support of their brethren in the event of a misfortune.\n\nNADIR SHAH\n\nNadir Kuli, or as he is better known, Nadir Shah of Persia, after occupying Isfahan, seated Mirza Tahmasap on the throne, although the real power was in his own hands. He also held four provinces of the Empire, viz., Khurasan, Mazindaran, Seistan and Kirman, directly as his","chars":1066,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00079.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/79","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/79","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."}}