{"book":"adl0973","page":206,"text":"next morning he entered the city. Thousands\nof the people of all tribes stood on either\nside of the road to greet him. He was\nreceived with the shouts of \"Long live the\nSaviour of the Nation.\"\n\nThe Marshal proceeded straight to the\nSalam Khana-the Hall of Reception.\nRepresentatives from every part of the\ncountry had gathered there. One of them\ngot up and thanked the Marshal and his\nbrothers for their innumerable services. The\nMarshal made a brief speech, telling them\nthat they should realize the national losses\nand do their best to recoup them. All جبران خسارت\nthe representatives earnestly implored the\nMarshal to accept the throne, but the Marshal\nwas unwilling to go so far. He said that his\naim had been achieved and his duty was\ndone. He wanted to return to private life at\nAliabad-two miles from Kabul. But the\npeople who had realized the true worth of\nthe Marshal would on no account leave him.\nHis remonstrances were in vain. He was\ntheir saviour and so he must be their king.\nThe hall resounded with the repeated shouts\nof \"Long live King Mohammad Nadir Shah.\"\n\n163","chars":1080,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00206.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/206","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/206","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."}}