{"book":"adl0973","page":193,"text":"proved to be for the worse. Some of the\npamphlets and a few copies of the Islah found\ntheir way to Kandahar and had a salutary effect مفید\nin rousing the people. One of the Achakzai\nقوی ۔ فوری leaders, Mehr Dil Khan, was strenuously\nexerting himself to shake off Bacha's yoke.\nGradually he won a large number of\nadherents from amongst the tribes and the\nBacha's military posts were taken and the\ngarrison massacred. Feeling the general\nweakness of the Bacha's Government and\nthe universal hatred of the people for him,\nhe determined to march on Kandahar.\n\nIn the north the Bacha was very\nsuccessful. His agents Mohammad Qasim\nKhan and Abdur Rahim Khan took the\nwhole province without having an army\nat their command. Such was the general\nhatred of the people for the ex-King and\nhis officials that the soldiers everywhere\nشورش کردن mutinied, killed their officers and sent their\nallegiance to the Bacha. Abdul Aziz Khan,\nthe Governor of Mazar-i-Sharif, had to flee\nfor his life. But soon the tables were turned.\nGhulam Nabi Khan, a brother of Abdul\nAziz Khan, with a handful of Turkomans\n\n152","chars":1092,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00193.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/193","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/193","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."}}