{"book":"adl0973","page":36,"text":"many people left the city for other parts\nof the country and some even bade good-bye\nto their motherland.\n\nMaladministration consequent upon these\n\"reforms\" was another important factor\nin bringing about the revolution. Corrup-\nافراط tion was rampant in all departments, civil\nas well as military. Most of the officials were\ninexperienced, incompetent and self-conceited\nپشتو? and had secured their jobs by favouritism\nقوم خویشی bribery or nepotism. Higher officials, appeased آرام كيشته\nby suitable bribes and presents, remained deaf\nto all complaints of oppression and connived\nat the misappropriation of public money.\nGovernment jobs were for sale and could\nbe secured by the highest bidder irrespec-\ntive of qualifications. The money paid\nand the post secured, the powers it con-\nچسپ لاوم? ferred upon the incumbent were limitless\nand he was free to extract money from\nthe people in any way he pleased. Posts of\nall sorts were sold openly and nobody was\nashamed or afraid of receiving or offering\nbribes-the highest officials of the King and\neven of the Queen not excepted. The result\nof this maladministration was wide-spread\n\n9","chars":1133,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00036.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/36","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/36","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."}}