{"book":"adl0973","page":164,"text":"bringing about his fall. The Marshal felt\ndisappointed at the receipt of such a foolish\nreply and decided to proceed without\nthem.\n\nThe Bacha on his side was not slow\nin realizing the danger from the south. He\nknew that every day that passed lessened\nhis chances and lowered his prestige in the\npublic eye. He could not bear to see the\nMarshal and his brothers working in the\nsouth. True, Amanullah Khan was advanc-\ning towards Ghazni, but he had no apprehen-\nsion from that quarter, as he was aware\nof the waning prestige of the ex-King and\nalso counted on the timely help of his\npowerful allies—the Sulaiman Khels. In the\nsouth, too, he had allies and powerful ones,\nbut here he had to face an experienced general\n—a man of exceptional ability and held in\ngreat esteem. He was, therefore, compelled\nto devote his immediate attention to this\nside. An army about ten thousand strong,\nwell equipped and well supplied with arms,\nwas ordered to proceed straight towards\nGardez and take the Marshal and his men\nby surprise. Another was sent via Khushi\n\n125","chars":1052,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00164.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/164","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/164","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."}}