{"book":"adl0973","page":232,"text":"he would not shirk from the onerous task\nof leading his people towards civilization\nand progress, and would do his best to\neliminate the plague of corruption and\nbribery. His desire has always been for\npermanent peace, to enable his people to\ncontinue in paths of industrial progress and\nthus preserve the national honour and\nprestige. He and his brothers applied them-\nselves vigorously to reconcile the warring\nchiefs. The tribes, who thought once more\nof securing deliverance from the Central\nGovernment, learnt for the first time that\nthey could no longer continue their once\nprofitable occupation of looting and plunder-\ning neighbouring villages. The most pressing\nneed of the country was to unite different par-\nties and factions. Through the incessant [مخالفین]\nefforts of these national heroes, we find that to-\nday the provinces are once more united under\none constitution and are making steady\nprogress. They might occasionally suffer\nfrom the partial abuse of delegated authority,\nbut the general principle of Government\nis wise, simple and beneficent. Every body\nenjoys freedom of speech. All have\n\n181","chars":1115,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00232.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/232","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/232","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."}}