{"book":"adl1197","page":109,"text":"- 96 -\nduzie dynasty; and the equal ceremoney of simplicity was manifested\nin crowing Amir Doust Mohamed Khan; one by the head of wheat,\nand the other by barley; the two have a close resemblence. The one was\neffected at Kandahar and the other one at Kadul. But the spirit of the\ntwo is the same. The two adorned their crowns with the products of\ntheir country.\n\nTHE FORWARD POLICY .\nARTIGLE TWENTY SIXTH.\n\nDuring the fifty years, which comprise the second half of the\n19th centry of the Christian Era; wiser heads in the Punjab, in\nthe Sindh, in Simla or even in London; were all: whether high\nEnglish officers, or political thinkers; were in earnest search of\na permanent Boundry line between Afghanistan and India. Many\ntheories and observations were projected. One such was the so\ncalled the Forward Policy. This policy had its advocates-at various\ntimes in the second half of the 19th. Century. The followers\nof this school are responsible for rendering asunder the friendly\nrelations between Afghanistan and the English: this, too was the\npolicy which brought large tracts of our country under the\naggrssion of the English; which also brought about the question\nof the Frontiersi unfortanately where the tribal people regret the\nlack of appreciation of their rights.\n\nIn the 18th.article under the of \"ON THE SEARCH OF A FRON-\nTIER LINE., we had given particulars about two Schools of politi-\ncs; one apperaining to the Advance Policy and the other one to Stay\n—Put; till atlast the determination towards the Forward Policy for dra-\nwing a line of demarcation was spoken of; in connection with Afghanistan\nand India. As the English and the political thinkers had over thrown\nthe Close Border Policy;\"and adopted the Forward policy which produ-\nced so much difficulty between the two governments of Afghanistan and\nEngland: our country was subjected to aggression. Certain parts of the\nland of Afghanistan were detached through guile, both military and.\npolitical; we desire here to speak a little more fully in this connection\n\nThis Forward Policy, according to some, is also termed as the Sindh\npolicy or the policy of the Sindh School. This is oppoed to another","chars":2168,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00109.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/109","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/109","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."}}