{"book":"adl0973","page":91,"text":"the faces of those in the streets indicated\nplainly that they had no sympathy for him.\nHe was obliged to call a meeting in which\nhe fully explained to his audience the causes\nthat had brought about the revolution. He\nadmitted that he had committed blunders,\nand that in order to put an end to the\nbloody civil war, caused by his rash and\nmisguided steps and owing to the general\nhatred of the people for himself and his\nregime, he was obliged to abdicate in favour\nof his elder brother, Inayatullah Khan. In\nthe end, he asked them to co-operate with\nthe Kabul Government in establishing peace\nand to send in their allegiance to Inayatullah\nKhan. The audience did not promise any-\nthing. Some of them rebuked him for his\nunwise steps, others were bold enough to tell\nhim to his face that they could not help him in\nany way and that he should seek assistance\nfrom his ignorant and treacherous courtiers,\nwho were the real cause of this national catas-\ntrophe. In fact, they were not prepared\nto accept Inayatullah Khan or any member\nof his family as their king. Nor did they\nhold any brief for the Bacha, whom they\nknew to be a low-born illiterate person with\n\n60","chars":1161,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00091.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/91","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/91","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."}}