{"book":"adl1197","page":104,"text":"- 91 -\nAwards. He started on a military expedition due to this disregard of the spirit of the Awards; and the forces of Pur Dil Khan and those of Doust Modamed Khan faced each other at a point near Muqar river. But a plague that struck both camps, the battle was postponed, and a peace was cemented between the two contestents. This was how Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan retained Kabul, and Sirdar Pur dil Khan continued as a master of Kandahar. This too, was the shape of things whereby the government of Kandahar remained in the hands of the Barakzi Brothers. Sirdar Pur Dil Khan, till his death in the year 1245.A.H. was the master of Kandahar; after which, although other Sirdars, like Kohin Dil Khan, Mihr Dil Khan and Rahim Dil Khan were still alive; the rulership of Kandahar was in the hands of Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan; who with the help of his brothers managed to retain his position for 25 years. We would now study his activities which mark his time of rule in Kandahar from 1245.A.H. to 1271.A.H. as a general current of history:\n\n1245.A.H. is a year when Prince Kamran after the death of his father took the reigns of the government into his hands; and with the help and good advice of Yar Mohamed Khan, the Sabuzai kingship was made secure. In Kabul the scene was different, for upto the year 1254. A. H.-the beginning of the rule of Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khanthe rivalry between the Barakzai Brothers for the purpose of getting the throne of Kabul has continued. The English aggession under the cloak of helping Shah Shuja took place in the year 1255. A. H. Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan ruled at kandahar; and it is period when larger affairs of an international character sprang up, when the English and ths Russians were taking deep interest in Afganistan. It is a time when Kamran ruled at Herat, Kohin Dil Khan at Kandahar and Amir Doust Mohamed Khan directed the destinies of Kabul government. The Russians were on the one hand inciting the Persian Qachars to lift their hands against the Saduzai; on the other hand wanted to secure Kabul and Kandahar; thus Captain Vakuvich was sent to Kabul and to Kandahar. One of the most important matters, which took shape during the time of Kohin Dil Khan at Kandahar was an Agreement which was signed between him and the Russian Envoy. This very Envoy also came to Kabul; so that","chars":2326,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00104.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/104","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/104","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."}}