{"book":"adl0973","page":58,"text":"assisted by the nobles and Mullahs of the\nNorthern Province, were now on their way\nto Kabul, having already reached Shehr Ara,\nwhere the Habibia College was then housed,\nabout a mile from the Arg.\nBacha, after declaring himself Amir and\nDefender of Islam, divided his army into two\nparts. One of them was sent to the north\nunder the command of Sayed Hussain to\ncapture the fort of Jabl-us-Siraj, as has been\nmentioned above, while the other about three\nhundred strong, under his personal command\nmarched straight on Kabul. His plan was\nto smuggle his forces into the Arg in the guise\nof royal levies and take the King by surprise.\nOn the way, at Serai Khoja, he easily dis-\narmed the government troops, some of whom\nwere won over to his side by tact and promis-\nes of future advancement. He met with\nno further opposition and after crossing the\nKhairkhana Pass made a dash for Kabul.\nThis bold step on his part with only\na handful of men at his side shows clearly\nthat he was fully acquainted with the\nweakness and the apathy of the Central\nGovernment, and that some of the courtiers\nwere secretly in league with him and supplied\n29\nبی حسی\nبی میلی","chars":1147,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00058.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/58","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/58","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."}}