{"book":"adl0973","page":299,"text":"foremost of the Afghan diplomats and one\nof the greatest organizers that the East has\never produced. He is the idol of the\nEasterner. He possesses all the qualities\nof a strong and brave ruler combined with\nthe diplomatic skill of a modern statesman.\nHe is the wise general of the East and the\nexperienced diplomat of the West. Weigh\nhim as carefully as you like in the scale\nof historical criticism, he will always take\nrank with the greatest sovereigns and\nreformers of the East. He is always devoted\nto the advancement of public prosperity and\nis extremely careful of the interests of his\npeople. He never allows himself the smallest\nrespite in the discharge of his duties, and\nis always ready to remedy evils, to redress\nwrongs and to acquaint himself personally\nwith the condition of his people. The\nAfghans fully realize that they have now\na king who has proved his worth time and\nagain in war and in peace. He is called\nthe \"Saviour of the Nation\"—Naji-i-Millat.\nHis personality and his conduct have already\nsecured for him the highest reward that a\nsovereign can aspire to—the love and esteem\n\n224","chars":1105,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00299.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/299","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/299","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."}}