{"book":"adl0973","page":238,"text":"Hisar. When completed, this will be one\nof the grandest buildings of its kind. Nor\nis this all that has been done for the army.\nThe soldiers are contented and satisfied, a\nspirit of brotherly comradeship has been\ncreated among them and there is far great\ncohesion amongst them than had ever been\nachieved before.\n\nEducation.—Side by side with the\ndevelopment of the army, the King devotes\nmuch of his attention to the education of his\ncountrymen. He considers that the true\nhappiness of his people can only be achieved\nthrough education and peace. He himslef\nis a man of great learning and is a great\nlinguist, commanding considerable fluency in فصاحت\nsix languages. Though the major portion of his\nlife has been spent in the army and diplomatic\nservice, he does not lack the genius of a great\nman of letters.\n\nOne of his first acts after taking Kabul\nwas the re-opening of schools and colleges,\nand each year witnesses the establishment\nof new educational institutions. One of the\nlatest is the Faculty of Medicine (the first\nmedical college of the country), where the\n\n185","chars":1074,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00238.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/238","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/238","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."}}