{"book":"adl0973","page":135,"text":"at the time exceeded fifty thousand. The\nmajor portion of this formidable army with\nthe best officers to command them was\nstationed in the strong military posts facing\nthe Southern Province. The Bacha seems\nto have studied the situation thoroughly and\nhad nothing to fear from other quarters.\nOnly two thousand men sufficed for the\nKandahar front; a few thousand rupees had\nfrustrated the plans of Wali Ali Ahmad Jan,\nand with only a handful of men his agents\nMohammad Qasim and Abdur Rahim Khan\nhad marched straight up to Mizar-i-Sharif\nwithout meeting the slightest resistance. But\nخواب گران the southern problem was a nightmare to\nthe Bacha and his counsellors, for they\nknew the general popularity of the Marshal\nand his brothers. They were not ignorant\nof their military skill. They also knew\nfully the warlike character of the southern\ntribes. But with their vast resources they\nfelt hopeful of ultimately bringing the\nتسلط Southern Province under their sway. The\nbest soldiers and most experienced officers—\nthe pick of Bacha's army—were despatched\nto the south. Mohammad Siddiq, Sher Jan's\nbrother, a general of no ordinary capacity,\n\n98","chars":1145,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00135.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/135","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/135","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."}}