{"book":"adl1197","page":102,"text":"- 89 -\nSIRDAR KOHIND DIL KHAN & THE KANDAHAR\nGOVERNMENT.\nArticle twenty forth\n\nThe subject of the government of Kandahar rose from the time, when the Erothers had not yet aquired power at the central goverhmant; and thus, they had agreed to apportion the territory amongest the brothers. During the first period of the rule of Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan and at the time when Kamran, the Sadozai king was ruling at Herat: Kandahar was in the hands of the Kandahari Sirdars. One of the reasons of the success of the English aggression in this country, was undeniably the system of apportioning of the territory amongst the Earakzai people. After the expulsion of the English from the country, Sirdar Kohind Dil Khan took Kandahar from the hands of the sons of Shahshuja, and established his power and rule at Kandahar. After his death, however, Amir Doust Mohamed Khan, brought the two sections of the country, namely Kandahar and Herat under his suzerianty for the purpose of the unity of the kingdem.\n\nAmongst the sons of Sirdar Payunda Khan, a number were from a Ghilzi mother namely Pur Dil Khan, Shair Dil Khan, Kohin Dil Khan, Mahr Dil Khan and Rahm Dil Khan; and these brothers were Known as the Sirdars of Kandahar. This appallation had been given to them merely because of the locality of their residence as Kandahar.\n\nWhen Vazir Fateh Khan, through his efforts and help was able to secure the kingdom for Shah Mahmud the Saduzai for the second time: and installed himself as the Chief Minister; he brought his brothers into the avenues of government administration; so that Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan was appointed as governor at Kandahar: Sirdar Rahm Dil Khan at Bluchistan and finally Shair Dil Khan was appointed the administrator at Ghazni. when the appalling incident of blinding of Vazir Fateh Khan on the order of Prince Kamran at Herat occurred; the Sirdars Shair Dil Khan and Kohin Dil Khan betook themselves to their mother at Naad Ali near Lui Addi: and when Shah Mahmud was defeated by Doust Mohamed Khan at the Killa Qazi: the sons of Lui Addi attacked Kan-","chars":2072,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00102.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/102","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/102","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1197/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1197_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."}}