{"book":"adl0973","page":100,"text":"After his departure Ali Ahmad Jan who\nwas then at Kandahar once more declared\nhimself King. But he was not to enjoy\nhis kingship for long. The Saqaoists were on\ntheir way to Kandahar. The city was soon\nbesieged and Ali Ahmad Jan found himself\nsurrounded by the enemy and deserted by\nhis soldiers. The terrified citizens at once\nopened the gates. Ali Ahmad Jan with a\nfew of his faithful followers tried to force\nhis way through one of the city gates, but\nmost of his men lost their lives in the\nattempt and he himself escaped narrowly.\nHe took shelter in one of the private houses,\nbut was soon discovered, taken to Kabul, and\nkept in the Arg for a few days. He was\nparaded through the streets of the city in the\nmost ignominious way, taken to the aero- فضیحت\ndrome, and finally blown from cannon's\nmouth (July 9, 1929).\n\n69","chars":824,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00100.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/100","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/100","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_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."}}