{"book":"adl0973","page":192,"text":"for the last eight months had been groaning\nunder various oppressive measures. The\nnobles and the high officials were either\nshot dead or were suffering tortures in\ndungeons and prisons. Most of the people\nwere unemployed and did not know how\nto procure their daily bread. Shops were\ngenerally closed and trade was at a stand\nstill. Afghanistan was entirely cut off from\nthe outside world. The Bacha and his men\nthinking themselves now masters of the\ncountry with none to dispute their rights\nhad increased their atrocities. Independence\nDay arrived and was celebrated at Deh\nMozang near Kabul with great ceremony\nand rejoicing.\n\nKandahar had submitted to the Bacha\nand was governed by one Abdul Qadeer.\nAbdul Latif, the notorious Kohati and the\nmessenger of Bacha, was in charge of the\nPolice Department. The whole of the\nKandahar Province was now part of Bacha's\ndominion. But the Kandaharis had by this\ntime realized their folly. During the days of\nKing Amanullah Khan they wanted a change\nof Government; but the change, when achieved,\n\n151","chars":1043,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00192.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/192","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/192","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."}}