{"book":"adl0973","page":60,"text":"a band of eighteen military students\nopened fire on the insurgents and kept them\nengaged for half an hour. They were,\nhowever, easily overpowered and disarmed;\ntheir number was small and they had run\nshort of ammunition. But their timely\nresistance saved the government from immedi-\nate collapse. But for their gallantry and رشادت\nopportune action, the King would have lost\nboth his kingdom and his life.\nRapid firing on both sides at last roused\nthe King in his palace, and opened his eyes\nto the seriousness of the situation. Some\neighty men of the Royal Guards came out\nand made a bold stand against the rebels.\nBy their courage and skill, they beat the\nenemy back after a bloody fight lasting for\nabout two hours. Bacha and his men were\ncompelled to retreat and take shelter in the\nHabibia College and the adjacent village\nof Kalola Pushtah. The tower of the\nHabibia College occupies a commanding posi-\ntion and the Royal Guards could not\nimmediately follow up their advantage. But\nan hour later, a few well-aimed cannon shots\nfrom the Arg compelled Bacha to evacuate\nthe tower and retire. He left the place\n\n31","chars":1115,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00060.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/60","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/60","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."}}