{"book":"adl0973","page":30,"text":"him justly unpopular, especially with the\nsouthern tribes; people began to feel that\nit was not safe to trust the King's word\nany longer.\nBreach of faith on the part of the\nruler was thus the first cause which fostered بوجود آورد\ndiscontent and ultimately brought about his\ndownfall. Later, when the revolution was\nin progress, and Bacha Saqao had delivered\nhis attack, the King, seeing that his hopes\nof success were small, tried once more to\nwin the public to his side. In the public\ngarden of Kabul, he made a speech, pro-\nmised once more to take back his unpopular\nlaws and to grant his people a just constitu-\ntion. But it was too late. The audience\nhad lost their faith in him. There were\nsome who openly reminded him of his past\npromises and of how they had been broken\nand refused to help him in any way.\nAnother cause which spread discontent\namong the people and hastened the revolu-\nبی رحمانه tion was the ruthless squandering بباد دادن of public\nmoney to the extent of nearly exhausting\nthe treasury. In December 1927, King\nAmanullah Khan and his queen with a\n5","chars":1072,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00030.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/30","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/30","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."}}