{"book":"adl0973","page":157,"text":"through their lands to the famous fort of\nNeknams, situated in the heart of the district,\nbut Mohammad Rafique Khan, its owner,\nrealizing his dangerous position, informed\nthe Marshal about the evil intentions of\nthe people, telling him that his advance in\nthat direction would be strongly opposed\nby the local tribes, and requesting him\nto avoid the route and proceed by some\nother way. The same evening the lashkar,\nafter so many hardships, reached the village\nof Ibrahimkhel—at a distance of some eight\nmiles from Gardez. It was here that\nLevannai, the notorious Dari Khel dervish,\nwith a few of his disciples came to meet\nthe Marshal. He expressed sorrow at his\npast hostilities and promised to help him\nwith his men in return for some money and a\nsufficient quantity of arms and ammunition.\n\nNext day the lashkar left for Baladeh,\nthe chief village of the Ahmadzai tribe,\nat a distance of some three miles from\nGardez. There the Marshal called a halt\nand determined to make this village his\nheadquarters for the time being. He did\nnot choose Gardez, because it was then held\nby Mohammad Siddiq and his men, most\n\n118","chars":1120,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00157.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/157","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/157","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."}}