{"book":"adl0973","page":120,"text":"to catch a glimpse of the famous Afghan\nCommander-in-Chief on whom alone, it was\nwhispered, rested the fate of the country.\nThey would put to him various questions on\nthe topic and his answers were always in the\nstrain shown in the above extracts.\n\nPeshawar.—The Marshal and his brothers\nreached Peshawar on the 19th February. A\nlarge number of people and many influential\ntribal chiefs had come to meet him at the\nrailway station. During his short stay at\nPeshawar, he knew no rest, engrossed as he مشغول. مجذوب\nwas in a minute study of the problems lying\nahead. Ali Ahmad Jan and some other\nAfghans who were at this time in Peshawar\ncame to see him and supplied him with\nthe information they possessed and the local\nchiefs insisted that he should go to Kandahar\nand help the ex-King, being, strangely\nenough unaware, even then of the general\nhatred of the Afghans for Amanullah Khan.\nIn their blind and over-zealous sympathy\nfor a Muslim State, they wanted to force\nupon the people a king who had been tried\nfor several years and found wanting. Marshal\nNadir Khan, who knew his fellow-countrymen\n\n83","chars":1101,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00120.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/120","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/120","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."}}