{"book":"adl0973","page":119,"text":"nor Ali Ahmad Jan, nor would I take\nany steps against them. I will do whatever is\nbest in the interest of my country; and\nwill only take sides with that party or indivi-\ndual whose aim is to render sincere service\nto the country, and has the people's sym-\npathies.\" When some of the Indians\npersisted in their demand that he should\nwork for the ex-King and do his best to\nget back the throne for him, he would reply,\n\"I have the deepest feelings of sympathy\nfor King Amanullah Khan, and am extremely\nsorry for all the calamities that by his rash\nand misguided steps, he has brought upon\nhimself and his country, but as for his\nدوباره جلوس reinstatement I cannot promise anything, as\nit is not in my power to make the people\naccept him as their King. The election\nof a king is the right of the people them-\nselves and whoever has their love and\nconfidence and is a true well-wisher of the\ncountry will naturally be elected for this\nسخت و صعب onerous duty.\"\n\nFrom Bombay to Peshawar the Marshal\nwas everywhere received very heartily. Large\nnumbers of people came to the railway stations\n\n82","chars":1088,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00119.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/119","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/119","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."}}