{"book":"adl0973","page":133,"text":"unequal struggle and leave their country-\nmen to their fate. But Marshal Nadir Khan\nand his brothers were of sterner stuff than\nto leave their country and take refuge in\nforeign lands. They were resolved to win\nor die.\n\nOne of their greatest difficulties was\nmoney. The Marshal and his brothers, even\nin the earlier days of prosperity were by\nno means affluent. All the members of their ثروت\nfamily, throughout their careers, had held\nhigh and responsible posts, but they had\nthe expenses of a large family to defray, پرداختن\nand what they could spare was spent in\nacts of charity and benevolence of a national\ncharacter. The Marshal when he was Com-\nmandar-in-Chief had founded the National\nSchool—Maktab-i-Milli—and nearly half of\nhis pay and more than half of the income\nfrom his estate went to meet its expenses, by\nno means a small drain on his meagre income.\nNo member of this family had ever attempted اندوختن\nto amass wealth by the usual unfair means.\nWhen they entered the Southern Province\nthey were penniless and could not even\nfeed those who had hastened to flock round\n\n96","chars":1085,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00133.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/133","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/133","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."}}