{"book":"adl0973","page":128,"text":"In Kandahar Amanullah Khan had once\nmore declared himself King. But he had\nentirely lost his prestige and was held in\nextreme contempt. There was also a\ngeneral hatred for the Bacha, and all were\ndesirous of seeing the end of his cruel regime.\nHerat, though nominally under the\nKandahar Government, and governed by\nMohammad Ghaus Khan and Mohammad\nIbrahim Khan, was not in favour of Amanullah\nKhan, and was in no way prepared to help\nhim in recapturing the capital.\nIn the north the Bacha had succeeded\nin occupying Mizar-i-Sharif ; but there was\na general hatred against his high-handedness\nand cruelty, and every one was anxiously\nwaiting for an opportunity to avenge his\ngrievances.\nThe Eastern Province was involved in\nan inter-tribal civil war, and only the greedy\namong the influential chiefs, anxious to share\nthe spoils, had sent their allegiance to the\nBacha.\nThe Hazaras, like the Verdaks, were\nmaking a bold stand against the ingression\nof Bacha's forces, and had several times\nsucceeded in routing them.\n91","chars":1018,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00128.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/128","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/128","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."}}