{"book":"adl0973","page":84,"text":"promises of rewards, and some were forced to\nsign bond of allegiance, yet there were men\nlike Sayed Ahmad Khan and Mohammad\nGul Khan, the present Home Minister, who\nwere bold enough to refuse homage [بیعت] and\nto argue that this was not the time for\nself-approval but for action and that the\nfirst duty of every Afghan at this juncture\nwas to fight the Bacha, the common enemy\nof the nation, and to bring about his\ndownfall. When this was accomplished\nit would then be time to invite represen-\ntatives from all parts of the country to a\nGrand Assembly and choose their king.\nThey pointed out that any other course\nwould perpetuate civil war and ultimately\nruin the whole nation. But Ali Ahmad Jan,\nwho was too ambitious to listen to reason\nor friendly advice, punished and otherwise\ndisgraced the dissenters, and thus silenced\nhis opponents.\nHaving won over in this way a large\nnumber of men to his side, his next\nobjective was Kabul; for he knew that the\nfall of Kabul meant easy success in other\nparts of the country. But he wasted a\ngood deal of time in getting under way,\n53","chars":1078,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00084.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/84","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/84","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."}}