{"book":"adl0973","page":106,"text":"patriot rose, as it were, from his sick-bed and\nafter months of hard labour and innumerable\nsacrifices succeeded at last in restoring peace\nand order in Afghanistan ; but before we do\nthat, let us glance at his early life and his\npast career, for the man, who was soon to\nhold the reins of Government and prove to\nbe the Saviour of his country, had never\nlacked those qualities which later proved to\nbe his best equipment in the service of his\nmotherland.\nH. M. King Mohammad Nadir Shah-i-\nAfghan, the second son of the late Sardar\nMohammad Yusuf Khan, was born on April\n9, 1883. In him are united the two royal\nhouses of Mohammadzais and Sadozais. On\nhis father’s side, he is the great-grandson of\nSardar Sultan Mohammad Khan, son of Sardar\nPayindah Khan, the founder of Mohammad-\nzais ; and on his mother’s side he descends\nfrom Ahmad Shah Abdali (1747—1773 A.D.),\nthe founder of modern Afghanistan.\nEven in his early life, he was distin-\nguished for his prudence, determination,\nbravery and liberality shown on many a\nmemorable occasion and in the cause of the\nnation, which he has been assiduously serving\n\nبا سعی زیاد 73","chars":1125,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00106.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/106","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/106","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."}}