{"book":"adl1197","page":108,"text":"- 95 -\n\nThe time of the rule of the Saduzai, with the greatness of\nthe rule of Ahmed Shah; and the dynasty's periods of ups and down\ncontinued in history of the time. This continued, till the mis-\ntakes and doubts of Shah Mahmud and Kamran, precipitated the\nawaful act of the blinding and ultimate assassination of Fathe Khan;\nwhich in time contributed to the rapid fall of the Sadozai House\nand the rise of the Barakzai Brothers and Barakzai rule. At the\ndeath of some of these Barakzai Sirdars, and the incident of\nAmir Doust Mohamad Khan,s taking over Kabul government esta-\nblished a Barakzai rule in Afghanistan. But Sirdar Doust Mohamad\nKhan had not as yet assumed the prerogatives of the rule in an\nofficial manner, and coronation had had not been effected when\non of a sudden from the south-eastern direction of the country;\nthe danger of Shah Shuja made its appearance. Sirdar Doust\nMohamed Khan, at the ivitation of his brothers, namely Sirdar Kohin\nDil Khan and Rahm Dil Khan proceeded to Kandahar and removed\nthe danger for a time at least. On his return to Kabul, he wan-\nted to concentrate his attention towards dispelling the danger of\nattacks of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh; and to proclaim a Holy War;\nhe was informed that the Holy War could only be proclaimed by\naMoslem Head of the Government: which impelled him to\nproclaim himself as king. E.mR 1836\n\nDo you know where and in what circumstances this coronation\ntook place? Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan was riding out with a few of his\nretainers in the neighbourhood of the Idd Mosque in the east of Bala\nHisar under the foot hills of Siah Sung. In spite of the fact that there\nwere not many men with him; Mir Haji, son of the late Mir Wayaz,\nas the leader of the divine of the time, tied a head of barley round\nSirdar Doust Mohamed Khan's head ; thus under most modest condit-\nions, the Sirdar was now known as the king. His tile was now the lea-\nder of the Faithful. His name was so proclaimed from the mosques.\nHe struck a coinage, which brings the days of the Holy War into ones\nrecollection .\n\nAmir Doust Mohamed Khan, therefore, started on a Holy War;\nthe ceremonies that were inacted so simply on the occasion of the cro-\nwing of Ahmed Shah Durrani in 1747 . A . D . as the head of the Sa-","chars":2264,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00108.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/108","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/108","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."}}