{"book":"adl0973","page":202,"text":"the danger was not yet over. The most\ncritical time had yet to come. The Bacha\nwith his chosen adherents was inside the\nArg, and all the members of the Marshal's\nfamily were kept there to be put to death\nas soon as the Arg was bombarded. The\nBacha sent word that each bullet fired in\nthat direction would find one of his relatives\nas its victim. Sardar Shah Wali Khan had\nto communicate with the Marshal on this\npoint. In the evening, Purdil, the Bacha's\nCommander-in-Chief with all the men at\nhis command, attacked the city from the\nPaghman side. Sardar Shah Wali Khan\nand General Shah Mahmud Khan with a\nhandful of men went out to meet him.\nNear Shehr Ara, the old Habibia College\nbuilding, a decisive battle was fought, and\nfortune once more favoured the heroes;\nPurdil himself was mortally wounded.\nOn the 11th October, the Sardar received\na reply to his letter sent to the Marshal.\nThis letter showed how the Marshal was ready\nto make the heaviest sacrifice for the sake\nof his motherland. He ordered his brother\nto commence bombardment immediately.\n161\nK","chars":1060,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00202.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/202","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/202","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."}}