{"book":"adl0973","page":43,"text":"plundered the Government offices and set\nthe buildings on fire. Other discontented\ntribes emboldened تحریص و تشجیع by their success joined\nhands with them and their numbers swelled.\nMore outbreaks occurred in other quarters.\nMembers of the Grand Assembly and men\nof religion were not slow to take advantage\nof the situation to avenge the indignities\nthey had suffered at the hands of the King\nand his corrupt courtiers. Exaggerated\nstories of the King's extravagance, his self-\nwilledness and his trespasses تجاوز، تخطی نموده against the\nlaws of Islam were circulated all around.\nThe result was that within a very short\ntime, King Amanullah Khan lost all the\nmilitary posts of the Eastern Province.\nTorkham and Dakka, the Afghan custom\nposts near the Khyber Pass, were plundered\nand the soldiers there disarmed. Not satis-\nfied with this and realizing the weakness\nof local officers and the ignorance of the\nCentral Government, the rebels advanced\nboldly upon Jalalabad, which they easily\nbesieged. After plundering the Government\noffices outside the city walls and burning\ndown most of them, they encompassed the\n\n16 احاطه کردن","chars":1128,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00043.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/43","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/43","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."}}