{"book":"adl0973","page":118,"text":"answer, \"Myself and the members of my\nfamily have resolved to serve the mother-\nland at this critical moment. Our only aim\nis to re-establish peace and to extinguish\nthe fire of civil war now ablaze, which if\nit last longer, will, we are quite sure, ulti-\nmately ruin it and deprive it of its prestige\nand independence.\"\n\nDuring his short stay at Bombay, the\nMarshal had a very busy time. He published\nsome pamphlets containing his views on the\nAfghan problem and sent these to different\nquarters of Afghanistan, asking his country-\nmen to abstain from the bloodshed and civil\nwar and to settle their differences by calling\na Jirgah, to which representatives from all\nparts of the country should be invited. In\na certain meeting at Bombay, he openly\ndeclared his policy in the following words:\n\"My object in going to Afghanistan is to\nask my countrymen to give up this inter-\nnecine warfare and settle their differences\namicably by means of a Jirgah, in which\nthey might elect a wise and energetic man\nfrom among themselves as their King. I\nam neither against King Amanullah Khan\n\n81\nF","chars":1085,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00118.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/118","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/118","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."}}