{"book":"adl0973","page":85,"text":"while the interval was used by Bacha in\ngathering a large number of men and equip-\nping and organizing them under the instruction\nof Mahmud Sami, an experienced general\nand military teacher.\nAli Ahmad Jan had very soon to taste\nمطلبی the fruits of his procrastination. His forces\nat Jagdilak had been chiefly recruited from\nthe Northern Province, and naturally their\nsympathies were with Bacha, and when they\nlearnt of the latter's success in taking Kabul,\nthey made up their minds to desert Ali\nAhmad Jan. The news of their resolve came\nto Ali Ahmad Jan as a great shock.\nLeaving Abdul Wakil Khan as his regent\nat Jalalabad, he hastily marched to Jagdilak.\nBut even there he mostly occupied him-\nself in compelling people to accept him as\ntheir King, while all this time Bacha was\nstrengthening himself and everyday a large\nnumber of men were recruited and straight-\nway put under training by him. Bacha\nrecognized in Ali Ahmad Jan a most formid-\nable rival. No doubt Amanullah Khan had\nagain declared himself King at Kandahar,\nbut that gave Bacha no cause for anxiety.\nHe knew that Amanullah Khan was generally\n\n54","chars":1116,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00085.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/85","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/85","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."}}