{"book":"adl0973","page":87,"text":"outpost towards the east. Most of the\nmen in the vanguard were from the north\nand when they found themselves face to\nface with the Saqaoists neither side would\nfire, and ultimately Ali Ahmad Jan's men\nwent over to Bacha's side taking with them\ntheir arms and ammunition (February 1,\n1929). This proved a death-blow to Ali\nAhmad's prestige. With the best portion\nof his army gone, he naturally desired to have\na larger number of tribesmen on his side.\nThe Khogianis and Shinwaris were approach-\ned and by promises of handsome rewards\nand high posts they were won over.\nBut their leaders, Maliks Mohammad\nJan, Mohammad Shah, and Qais had long-\nstanding jealousies among themselves. When\nthe second detachment which consisted\nmostly of Khogianis reached Omar Caves,\nMohammad Shah went secretly to Kabul\nand had an interview with Bacha who\ntreated him very kindly and gave him\na large sum of money together with pro-\nmises of greater bounty if he succeeded in\ndispersing Ali Ahmad Jan's forces. On his\nreturn at Barikow, he met Malik Mohammad\nJan, who having gained knowledge of his\n\n56","chars":1082,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00087.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/87","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/87","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."}}