{"book":"adl0973","page":196,"text":"Khan was asked to prepare another lashkar\nand to threaten the Bacha's eastern flank,\nwith the result that the Bacha had to send\na large portion of his army to the east.\nHamidullah, Bacha's younger brother, was\nmade the commander of this section. After\na short resistance, Sardar Mohammad Hashim\nKhan began to retreat and the enemy thinking\nthemselves victorious made a hot pursuit.\nBut their difficulties increased daily. Every\nday brought new troubles. If one tribe was\nsubjugated, another in a different quarter\nwould rise and more reinforcements had to be\nsent from the capital.\n\nThe Marshal, on the other hand, watched\nthe course of events very carefully. He\nalso made preparations on a larger scale.\nInvitations were sent to some trans-border\nAfghan tribes. The Orakzais were the first\nto respond. But as their way lay through\nBritish territory, they could not come to Jaji\nwithout the consent of that Government.\nH. Mohammad Akbar Khan was sent to\nconsult the Political Officer at Parachinar.\nBut the Government of India declaring its\nstrict neutrality refused passage. The\n\n155","chars":1084,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00196.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/196","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/196","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."}}