{"book":"adl0973","page":63,"text":"occasion, some of Bacha's sympathizers\nappeared in disguise and were supplied with\nammunition and arms from the royal maga\nzines.\n\nمخزن اسلحه دربار است\n\nMost of the new-comers returned home\nwith their newly-acquired rifles, others infested\nthe roads ; some roamed about in the city in\nthe hope of finding an opportunity to loot\nsome wealthy merchants, while not a few joined\nhands with the rebels. Ghaus-ud-Din, chief\nof the Ahmadzais, a warlike Ghilzai tribe of\nthe Southern Province, received a large\nnumber of rifles on promise of faithful service,\nbut deserted the royal camp soon after\nand went back to his village. In the city\nthere was a universal feeling of hatred\ntowards the King and his government, which\nwas responsible for this unrest and internecine\nwarfare. The King was well aware of the\ngeneral hatred and dared not come out of\nhis castle or show himself in public. The\nfighting went on for some days without easing\nthe situation. The rebels had taken up their\nposition in Bagh-i-Bala, in Nau Burjah, a\nstrong mud fortress of nine towers, next door\nto the British Legation and at Kafir Koh, a\nhigh hill of great strategical importance. The\n\nبالسده\n\n34","chars":1168,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00063.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/63","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/63","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."}}