{"book":"adl0973","page":137,"text":"to the people that his sole aim was to\nrelease his country from the cruel grip of the\nبد بخت شقی ignorant miscreant and that he himself\nbelonged to no party. He had to tell them\nthat if he succeeded in driving out the Bacha,\nhe would leave the election of the king to\nthe nation itself to be discussed in a Grand\nAssembly, in which representatives from all\nparts of the country should take part. He\nhad no desire to become a dictator—he\nنفرت داشتن loathed the idea—or to force a king upon\nthem. Then the people would insist that if\nhe was not fighting for the ex-King he should\nhimself make a bid for the throne. This\nthe Marshal was not willing to do. He\nopenly declared that he had no desire to\nbecome king and that if the question of\nkingship was settled except by the Grand\nAssembly, there was no chance of a perma-\nnent peace in the country. It was not easy\nto make the illiterate people, who from cen-\nturies were accustomed to autocratic rulers,\nعادات comprehend these democratic notions and\nrealize their true value. The tribes still\nbelieved that the Marshal was fighting for\nAmanullah Khan and so bitter was the\nfeeling against the ex-King that some of them,\n\n100","chars":1173,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00137.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/137","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/137","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."}}