{"book":"adl0973","page":86,"text":"hated by his people and had no chance\nof winning back his throne. But Ali Ahmad\nJan was an experienced general and had\na regular force at his back with a large\nquantity of arms and ammunition, and\ncommanded great influence in the east.\nBacha sent a mission to Ali Ahmad Jan\nasking him to swear allegiance forthwith.\nThe mission met Ali Ahmad Jan at Jagdilak,\nwhere he was busy with his preparations\nfor the attack on Kabul. Instead of sending\nthe mission back with a reply he detained\nit for sometime, lest they should carry\ninformation to the Bacha regarding the real\nstrength of his army. But these precautions\nproved of no avail. His army, recruited as\nit was from different tribes, was of too\nheterogeneous a character including men from\nthe north who could not make up their\nmind to fight against the Bacha; as soon\nas an opportunity offered itself were only\ntoo willing to desert his camp to join the\nSaqaoists.\nThus he committed a serious mistake\nwhen he sent a detachment of troops towards\nthe Caves of Mullah Omar at a distance of\nsome six miles from But-Khak. the Bacha's\n55","chars":1084,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00086.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/86","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/86","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."}}