{"book":"adl0973","page":40,"text":"the country. There were small risings in\nseveral quarters, and the King being either mis-\ninformed, or proud of his power and influence,\npaid no heed to them, till the disturbances\ntook the form of a revolution. The King was\nnot strong enough to meet the crisis. He\ncould not realize the strength of the forces\narrayed against him, nor could he devise\nmeans to cope with them successfully. On\nthe other hand, contrary to all Afghan tradi-\ntions, he shirked the issue, and by his lack of\ncourage lost all chances of winning support\nand possibly, success. He abdicated in\nfavour of his elder brother, Sardar Inayat-\nullah Khan, and secretly ran away to\nKandahar, leaving the nation an easy prey to\nthe brigands of the north.\n\nLastly, the poor estimate in which he\nheld the religious feelings of his subjects was\nan important factor in bringing about his\ndownfall and precipitating the catastrophe.\nRumours were rife that the King had renounc-\ned Islam. No efforts were made to contra-\ndict such false rumours. On the other hand,\nthe careless ways of the King, his attempt to\nride rough shod over centuries-old traditions,\n\n13","chars":1123,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00040.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/40","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/40","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."}}