{"book":"adl1181","page":57,"text":"The Inhabitants and Citizens of Kabul:\n\nKabul has a population of about two\nhundred thousand and as this city is the\ncentre of the kingdom, people of nearly all\nparts of the country live there. The common\nreligion is Islam and the majority of\nthe people of Kabul speak the Dari langu-\nnage. Racially they are ARYAN and white-\nskinned, but the mixing of the Mongol and\nSemitic races in them has not been without\neffect. The majority of the inhabitants of\nKabul are the Tajiks, the meaning of\nwhich is Nobles and Landlords. They are\nbold, handsome and tall, also keen and\nintelligent, hard-working and patriotic. In\nthe city they engage in industry and trade,\nwhile outside, their occupations are cat-\ntle-breeding and agriculture.\n\nThe rest of the citizens of Kabul are\nracial brothers of the Tajiks, the Pash-\ntuns, brave, able-bodied and stout, also pa-\ntriotic-this race exists in great numbers.\nAlthough their mother tongue is Pashto,\nthey can also speak the Dari language well.\n\n- 15 -","chars":989,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1181/00057.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":77,"title":"Khvush āmadīd bih Kābul = : Welcome to Kabul خوش آمديد به کابل","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1181/57","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1181/canvas/57","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1181/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1181_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."}}