{"book":"adl0973","page":27,"text":"paid. He began by making large promises\nof higher salaries and special rewards, and\nhad no difficulty in winning over the simple\nminded soldiers. With the help of the army,\nhe easily ousted his uncle as well as his\nelder brothers. But once he was firmly\nestablished on the throne, and people from\nall parts had sent him allegiance and\naccepted him as their King, he forgot all his\npromises. This breach of faith, the first\nsign of his moral weakness after his accession\nto the throne, lowered him greatly in the\neyes of the people.\n\nYears went by without any important\nevent, though mistrust and discontent were\nseething under the surface. Matters were\nbrought to a head, when in 1924, H. M. King\nAmanullah Khan introduced some new\nlaws, which the people would not accept.\nThere was a general protest, but the King\npersisted in his views and would not rescind\nthe unpopular laws. Thereupon, the people\nof the Southern Province, the most war\nlike tribes in the whole of Afghanistan, took\nup arms. The King could have easily saved\nthe situation and an amicable settlement\n\n2","chars":1072,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00027.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/27","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/27","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."}}