{"book":"adl0973","page":127,"text":"against the common enemy of the nation,\nwho through the treachery of the Court and\nthe misguided steps of the ruler had succeeded\nin usurping the throne and was heading for\nnational destruction and ruin. He finished\nhis speech by declaring that he meant to\nconvene a jirgah after Id, in which a\nprogramme of action would be drawn up\nwhich, with their help, he would try to carry\nout. After this he left for the Cantonment,\nwhere necessary arrangements had been made\nfor his lodging.\n\nThe general condition of the country at\nthis time.—Before narrating the activities of\nSardar Mohammad Nadir Khan and his bro-\nthers in this drama of national salvation, let\nus consider the condition of the different\nprovinces at the time of their arrival.\n\nKabul, the most unfortunate of all the\nprovinces, was, as we have already observed, in\nthe cruel clutches of the Bacha and his men,\nand people were living in unholy terror of\nthem. Thousands had lost their lives on\nmere suspicion, and many were still undergo-\ning various kinds of tortures in the dungeons\nand prison houses.\n\n90","chars":1069,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00127.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/127","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/127","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."}}