{"book":"adl0970","page":82,"text":"the army, he was offered the crown of Persia,\nwhich after some feigned reluctance, he accepted\non the condition that the Shia religion be replaced\nby the Sunni doctrine.\n\nSoon after his elevation to the throne, Nadir\nmarched to Isfahan, and the short time he spent\nthere, was devoted to military preparations.\nFrom the time Nadir was able to overthrow the\nAfghan rule in Persia, he was thinking to conquer\nKandahar. He sent orders to the Governor of\nIsfahan to make a levy of 18,000 tomans as a\ncontribution towards the cost of the coming\nexpedition. At the same time his agents were\nbusy at different places requisitioning provisions\nfor the troops. They carried their duties so\nrigorously that the inhabitants were reduced to\nutmost misery. In the province of Kirman people\nwere so deprived of their supplies that there was\na famine which lasted for seven long years.\n\nAfter strong preparations Nadir advanced on\nKandahar with an army of 80,000 men. He\npassed through Khurasan and Seistan, meeting\nno resistance on his way. But when he arrived\nat Kandahar, he found that its defences were too","chars":1094,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00082.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/82","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/82","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."}}