{"book":"adl0973","page":213,"text":"of a national exchequer خزانه being absolutely\nbankrupt, unlined with even a silver coin.\nThe finances of the state, therefore, demanded\nthe first and the most vigilant care of the\nKing. Though every measure of injustice\nand extortion, which could bring the last\nخزینه farthing of his subjects into the coffers of\nthe state, had been adopted by the Bacha,\nyet upon his explusion from the Arg, the\npublic treasury was totally exhausted, so much\nso that King Mohammad Nadir Shah had\nno means to defray even the current expenses\nof the Government. It was literally the case\nof a monarch ruling at Kabul without\npossessing so much as even the price of a\nmeal for himself. Even under these dis-\ntressed and difficult circumstances he had\nبلند همتی the magnanimity to remit all the oppress-\nive rates and taxes which had told so\nheavily upon the poor classes and also\nپس مانده to cancel the arrears due from people and\nforego the unjust claims of the treasury,\ndeclaring in a royal decree that he was\nbetter satisfied to govern and administer a\npoor country with justice and equity than\nto acquire riches by means of tyranny and\n\n168","chars":1127,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00213.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/213","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/213","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."}}