{"book":"adl0973","page":160,"text":"CHAPTER XII\nPREPARATIONS—II\n\nGardez and the East.—We have already\nnoticed that on entering Afghanistan the\nMarshal had sent Sardar Mohammad Hashim\nKhan to the Eastern Province. It will be\nremembered that this province was the first\nthat took up arms against the ex-King and\nthat it was mainly through their activities\nthat Amanullah Khan finally lost his throne.\nBut once the war lust حرص و جوش of the Afghan is\nroused, he cannot easily subdue it. After\nthe expulsion اخراج of Amanullah Khan, the tribes\nremembered their old jealousies and rivalries\nand began to fight against one another,\nmaking the prospect of peace very uncertain.\nIt was at a time like this that the Marshal's\nbrother made his appearance among them.\nHe went from place to place, advising them\nto give up this internecine warfare and to\ncombine their forces against the common\nenemy of the nation. Most of the tribes\nwithdrew from the civil war, but some had\nbeen bribed by the Bacha and continued to\nfight and thus obstruct the plans of Sardar\n\n121","chars":1019,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00160.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/160","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/160","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."}}