{"book":"adl0973","page":42,"text":"CHAPTER II\n\nTHE REVOLUTION\n\nThe wide-spread discontent, which had\nfound vent for a time in whispers and\nquiet remonstrances, broke out at last into اعتراضها\nopen rebellion in one of the remotest parts دورترین\nof the country. The Shinwaris, a strong\nand war-like tribe, well-armed and sufficiently\ndisciplined, who live on the eastern border\nof Afghanistan near the mouth of the\nKhyber Pass, were the first to rise, in order,\nas they professed, to end the unpopular\nregime of King Amanullah Khan. They\nbegan by attacking the Government mili-\ntary posts of Achin and Kai on November\n14, 1928. The soldiers who had many\nشکایتها grievances were demoralized and offered but\nبی جرئت feeble resistance. Their officers, who were\nunaware of the wide-spread ill-feeling, were\ntaken by surprise, and were soon overpowered.\nThe soldiers were disarmed, the officers\nimprisoned, and large quantities of ammuni-\ntion, which stood them in good stead, fell\ninto the hands of the rebels. Then they\n\n15","chars":983,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00042.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/42","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/42","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."}}