{"book":"adl0973","page":229,"text":"villages deserted, houses burnt, thousands\nof people rendered homeless, schools and\ncolleges entirely closed, some of them burnt\nand demolished, the students having taken\nshelter in far off and remote places to avoid\nthe wrath of this ignorant tyrant, who\nخارجي regarded them as renegades. Kabul, like\nall the other cities, was scarred and eaten\naway with fire. On all sides blackened ruins\nتنفر آور gaped as if in horror and the loathsome\nremains of public executions were to be\nانبار غله found everywhere. The granaries were\nempty, and the grain fields had been neglected\nمدهش for reaping the gruesome harvest of human\nlives. To add to these even the elements\nseemed to be bent upon destruction. The\ncold winter—the coldest during a period of\nsome thirty years—threatened to last for\never.\nTo heal as far as possible the wounds\nدردناک inflicted by the hands of tyranny was the\nmelancholy task of this King, who took it\nup with the earnestness and solicitude\nof the humblest of workers. The innocent\nvictims who yet survived were recalled\nfrom exile, or released from the prison,\n\n178","chars":1085,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00229.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/229","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/229","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."}}