{"book":"adl0970","page":87,"text":"52\n\ntown. Many of the Kizilbash troops were taken\nby surprise and cut to pieces. The Indian\nnobles, on hearing the rumour, fell upon the\nPersian guards who had been sent to protect\ntheir property.\n\nNadir at first refused to believe the report of\ndisturbances. He ordered one of his men\nto go out and ascertain the true state of affairs.\nNo sooner did he come out of the fort than\nhe was killed by the angry mob. A second man\nsent after him met the same fate. The darkness\nof night prevented Nadir from taking immediate\naction. Next morning he mounted his horse\nand, with a strong escort, riding through the city\ncame to the golden mosque in order to study the\nsituation. He himself was assaulted. Someone\nfired at him from a window. The bullet missed\nNadir, but killed one of his chief officers beside\nhim. Enraged at this unusual audacity he gave\norders of a general massacre of the inhabitants.\nThe slaughter and loot continued to rage from\nsunrise till long after mid-day. The city was set\non fire in several places, and it soon became a\nhorrible scene of destruction, blood and terror.\nNo distinction was made between the guilty and","chars":1136,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00087.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/87","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/87","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."}}