{"book":"adl0973","page":254,"text":"prestige, paid less attention to\nthis institution. Consequently,\nmany periods of disruption of تفرقه ، جدائی\nchanges and convulsions took ناآرامی\nplace in the Moslem world.\n\nIn Afghanistan conferences were held\nfrom remote antiquity, since we قدیم الایام\ncan consider the Afghan Jirga\nas the just ruler of the Afghans.\nFor us consultation is no new\nthing. If the previous sovereigns\ndid not hold conferences, the\nnation in their tribes and clans\nat any rate have not abandoned\nto this day their Jirga system.\nAmanullah Khan formed the\nCouncil of State and the Repre-\nsentatives of the Nation used\nto be present at the centre of\nthe Government; but that\nCouncil or jirga of Afghanistan\ndid not prove to be advantage-\nous.\n\nI pray to God that such dark happen-\nings may not occur again in\nAfghanistan and that He may\n\n195","chars":819,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00254.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/254","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/254","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."}}