{"book":"adl0973","page":56,"text":"CHAPTER III\nBACHA ADVANCES\n\nAfter the truce with Bacha Saqao had\nbeen made and its terms published in local\nnewspapers and official pamphlets, the civil\npopulation of Kabul breathed freely for a\nwhile and every one thought that the city was\nتاريك ومحزن now safe. Although dismal news from the\neastern front found their way into the city\nnow and then, and disturbed the peace of the\npeople in no small measure, the situation\nwas generally regarded as being within con-\ntrol. Ali Ahmad Jan, an experienced gene-\nral, was already in the Eastern Province,\nand Bacha with his band of robbers would\nsoon be on his way to assist him. With the\nnorthern question thus settled, it was hoped\nand with reason that the rebels in the east\nترسانده would be overawed and speedy settlement\nwould follow. Besides, the people thought\nthat even if Ali Ahmad Jan failed in his\nnegotiations with the rebels, the capital was\nnot in any imminent danger. The home of\nthe rebels was a long way off, Kabul\nbeing in the grip of a severe winter and the\n\n27","chars":1027,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00056.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/56","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/56","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."}}