{"book":"adl0973","page":34,"text":"از بیداد\n\nreforms by removing the evils of corruption\nand maladministration, which had harassed\nthe people for such a long time. They\nvainly hoped that he would increase the\nfinancial resources of the nation by\nimproving agriculture, working up mines, in\nwhich the country was very rich, and\nintroducing useful industries. But they were\nsoon disillusioned. The so-called programme\nof \"reforms\", when it was finally launched,\nconcerned itself mainly with the adoption of\nEuropean dress and manners without taking\ninto account the fact that the high standard\nof living, which was aimed at, had been\nachieved in Europe after decades of industrial\nand commercial development. The pres-\ncribed standards required money, but nothing\nwas done to provide the nation with the\nmeans of obtaining it. The people, there-\nfore, found it impossible to co-operate; and\nwhen at last force was resorted to, the\nsituation went from bad to worse. A direct\nresult of these reforms, which included the\nremoval of purdah (veil), was increase in\ncorruption and bribery. An average govern-\nment employee whose monthly pay was not\n\n7","chars":1108,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00034.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/34","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/34","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."}}