{"book":"adl0973","page":111,"text":"the value of this historic success, and he\nerected a pillar near the Ministry of War to\ncommemorate this brilliant achievement of\nthe Commander-in-Chief. The words on this\npillar are :\nIn memory of the unique success and entry\nof the patriotic and national hero, Sardar\nMohammad Nadir Khan, Commander-in-Chief,\nby the valour of whose sword the Afghan\nNation won its independence from the British\nin the year 1298 (Solar Era), the pillar has\nbeen erected.\nBut the brilliant career of Sardar Moham-\nmad Nadir Khan and his brothers stimulated\nthe jealousies of the Court. Their long and\nlaborious services which had made them the\nidols of the nation, raised a host of enemies,\nwho were determined by every means in\ntheir power to bring about their downfall.\nThese worthless and selfish courtiers seized\nevery opportunity to poison the mind of King\nAmanullah against them. What they wanted\nwas that no honest man should be allowed to\nretain office under the Government, so that\nthey might be able to fatten themselves on\nbribes, and embezzle public money to their\nheart's content. They fully knew that so\n\n76","chars":1104,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00111.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/111","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/111","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."}}