{"book":"adl1197","page":105,"text":"- 92 -\nthis Russian envoy and the English Agent Burns both arrived in Kabul\nabout the same time .\n\nAmir Doust Mohamed Khan viewing the help rendered to the Siks\nand an incitement to them to inroad Afghanistan showed his inclina-\ntion to the Russians; and the English without taking the trouble of this\nreason which was at the bottom of the Amir's policy under the guise\nof a help to Shahshuja aggressed against Afghanistan. Sirdar Kohin\nDil Khan, assisted by his brothers, defended the country against the\naggressors; but the treachery of Haji Khan Kakari and his surrund-\nering to Shah Shuja, opened the gate of Afghanistan to the English\nforces of Agression. Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan, who due to the internal\nstrife could not go either to Herat or to Kabul; took refuse at the\ncourt of the Persians, by flying by way of Seistan and the valley\nof Hermond .\n\nDuring the period of four years of the English occupation of\nAfghanistan, the various parts of the country, like Kabul, Kand-\nahar, and Jalalabad were naturally held by Shah Shuja.\n\nFrom the second of November 1841,A.D. till the middle of\n1842. A.D. when Kabul and Ghazni were freed; the English forces\nheld Kandahar. Rawlinson, the English political agent wanted to\nsend the foreign troops from Kandahar to Kabul and Herat.\n\nGeneral Nott and Major Rawlinson, the military and political\nagents of the English prior to the avocuation from Kandahar, and\nthe meeting with English forces at Kabul for the purpose of\nleaving the country by way of the eastern reaches of the land;\nresolved to play a last political game and to isolate Kabul from\nboth Kandahar and Herat; and to continue their hold when he had\nleft the country through working under the guise of the sons of\nShah Shuja. With a view to this, first of all they put prince\nTimour as a king: but as he had observed that the collaps\nof the Sadozai was complete, refused to accept the English offer.\nAfter that the throne was offered to the second son of Shah Shuja,\none named Safdar Jung; and placed one named Sirdar Mohamed\nQuli Khan as his minister.\n\nEven all this no amalgamation and co-operation between the\nBarakzais and the Saduzais could be made; for four Months had","chars":2184,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00105.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/105","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/105","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."}}