{"book":"adl0973","page":153,"text":"and his lashkar. But the Dari-Khels were\nobstinate and refused passage. They were\nunder the influence of a dervish, Levannai\nby name, who was in the Bacha's pay, and\nsuch was his hold over the tribes that none\ndared oppose him.\n\nDuring this time the Marshal was busy\nday and night in publishing pamphlets\nexplaining his objects and asking the tribes\nto co-operate and join hands against their\ncommon enemy, and thus save their country\nfrom utter annihilation.\n\nThe negotiation with the Dari-Khels\ncontinued for full three days. The only\nargument they offered for their opposition to\nthe Marshal was that he was a partisan of\nthe ex-King and was working on his behalf.\nWhen it was found that these people would\nnot listen to reason and could not be prevailed\nupon to accept even the assurances of a\nJirgah, the Marshal was obliged to use force,\nmuch against his will. After a few hours of\nhot and contested fighting, the Dari Khels\nwere beaten and the Marshal was able to\nproceed towards Gardez. Nothing of any\nimportance occurred for the next few days.\nThe lashkar found no difficulty in reaching\n\n114","chars":1101,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00153.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/153","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/153","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."}}