{"book":"adl0973","page":247,"text":"خلاصه کردن the King epitomizes the new spirit. It\nمثبت ـ صریحاً categorically details the freedom of the\nsubjects, the liberty of vote and the democracy\nof the new system of the Government.\nA new department—Jamiat-ul-Ulama, the\nAssembly of the Learned, has been established\nto look into legal problems and submit their\nopinions on the new laws that are being\npassed from time to time.\nConstitutional.—The constitutional re-\nforms introduced by His Majesty must be\nregarded as his most praiseworthy act, a\nmeasure by which he parted with his autocratic\npowers and transferred them to the representa-\ntives of the people. During the last days of\nKing Amanullah Khan's reign, we heard of a\nبازیچه، شوخی parliament, but it was a mere farce, more for\npurposes of show than any real utility. The\nKing was head-strong and obstinate, and did\nnot like to give it any real power.\nKing Mohammad Nadir Shah, realizing\nthat no people can in these days make any\nprogress without participating in the affairs\nof their own Government, established a regular\nCouncil of State. This Majlis, as the\nAfghan Parliament is called, consists of two\n190","chars":1127,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00247.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/247","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/247","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."}}