{"book":"adl0973","page":231,"text":"متکبر مغرور\nnothing could reconcile the haughty spirit\nof the Saqaoists. They still lived in the\ninfamous past when the Bacha was at their\nhead and they were in full possession\nof the public treasury, which they could\nenjoy to their hearts' content. They ignored\nthe King's clemency and broke out in an\nopen rebellion at a time when the King\nhad little regular army and insufficient arms\nand ammunition. But they had soon to\nlearn that those, who were now masters\nof the capital, were not ordinary men—\nthey were masters of the art of governing\nand administration. Within a week the\ninsurrection was beaten down, and the ring-\nleaders of the insurgents were caught and\ncourt-martialled. The rest were once more\nallowed to settle down in their respective\nplaces,and encouraged to follow some honest\npursuit. King Mohammad Nadir Shah on\nthe very day that he entered the capital\nturned his attention to internal reforms. But\nmuch had yet to be done to return even\nto normal conditions. There were evils\nenough to be eradicated before reconstruction\ncould begin. He soon made it known that\n\n180\nمرحم\nبیخکن کردن","chars":1106,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00231.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/231","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/231","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."}}