{"book":"adl0973","page":286,"text":"importance to Afghanistan and\nthe British Government. Afghan-\nistan is not free from anxiety\nabout the border tribes with\nregard to the attitude of and\nconduct towards each other and\nthe Government of India. I\nmight say that the Frontier\nTribes and ourselves are one\nwith each other from the stand-\npoint of Islam and tribal relations.\nThe British Government has\nprobably had experience of and\nwitnessed this sympathy on the\npart of the Frontier Tribes\ntowards Afghanistan and vice\nversa for many a long year.\nانکار کردن - حاشا کردن We connot possibly repudiate\nthis fellow-feeling. For the dis-\ntress of the Independent Frontier\nTribes is sure to have repercus-\nsions in Afghanistan. From this\npoint of view the well-being and\nuplift of the Independent Tribes\nare always our desire and\naspiration.\n\n217","chars":803,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00286.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/286","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/286","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."}}