{"book":"adl0973","page":113,"text":"connected officially with his motherland, he\nneither forgot it nor ceased to send his protests\nagainst the unwise steps that were being\ntaken. On their part his countrymen never\nforgot him and his long series of sincere and\nunselfish services. Thus we find that from\nthe very first day of the Bacha's rule, all\neyes were turned on him and his brothers, on\nwhom alone rested the hopes of the oppressed\n[خلاصی / = نجات] for their deliverance ; and on the other side\nwe observe that this national out-cry was\nnot left unheard. Though quite unable to\nmove, the Marshal determined to reach his\nmotherland at all costs. He could not keep\nhimself away when his countrymen were in\nthe grip of the brigand chief and undergoing\nthe oppression and cruelty of the Reign of\nTerror.\n\n78","chars":772,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00113.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/113","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/113","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."}}