{"book":"adl0973","page":195,"text":"Kabul from the east simultaneously with\nthe attack of the lashkar from the south.\nBut unfortunately the southern lashkar had\nto fall back and the Bacha had time to\ncontrol the situation; and the eastern\nexpedition failed to do anything. The Bacha\nبلندترین was at this time at the zenith of his power.\nHe was now the master of the whole country.\nEven Gardez, the strongest military post of\nthe south, was in his possession. Yet he\ncould not feel at ease. The Marshal with\nhis brothers was still in Jaji busy with his\nwork in uniting the tribes and organizing\na lashkar. The Bacha managed to collect\na large army, about 50,000 strong, with the\nintention of attacking Jaji from different\nشروع کرد points. But before he was able to embark\non his expedition at the head of this\nformidable force, the Marshal thought of\na plan of dividing his forces. Sardar Shah\nMahmud Khan commenced his advance on\nGardez, thus keeping busy the Bacha's\ngarrison there. The enemy was obliged to\nstation an army of about 10,000 at Karez-i-\nDarvesh on the Kabul-Gardez Road.\n\nIn the east Sardar Mohammad Hashim\n\n154","chars":1091,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00195.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/195","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/195","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."}}