{"book":"adl0970","page":94,"text":"59\n\nIt will be remembered that when Nadir Shah took\nKandahar, he released Zulfikar Khan and his\nbrother Ahmad Khan from Mir Hussein's prison\nand sent them to Mazindaran. Later Ahmad\nKhan was appointed in command of a force of\nhis own tribe. It was here that he distinguished\nhimself. He owed his rapid advancement to his\nmilitary ability. His mental powers were con-\nsiderable, and to these he added the advantage of\na noble birth and great physical energy and\ncourage. Nadir had predicted great things of his\nfuture. Once he said, \"I have found neither in\nIran, Turan or Hind, a man equal to Ahmad\nKhan Abdali's character.\" This estimate of\nNadir was justified by later events.\n\nAhmad Shah, though very young at the time\nof his coronation, for he was hardly twenty-five,\nproved himself a real military genius. His merits\nas a soldier secured him rapid advancement at a\nvery early age. Now when he came to power, he\ntried his best to win the affection of his people\nand to weld them together into a strong nation.\nWhen this object was achieved, he proceeded to\nconduct a series of important campaigns, which","chars":1107,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00094.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/94","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/94","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."}}