{"book":"adl1197","page":113,"text":"help us. Lord Robert, who gave battle to the Afghan forces both at\nKabul and at Kandahar, and was the Commander In Chief of the British\nforces in India, was deeply wedded to the Forward Policy; and\nhe should be regarded as the leader of those who wished\nto usurped the independence of the tribal people; and the greatest\naggressor of Afghan territory. Lord Roberts was of opinon that\nthe English should continually make military progress in the tribal\nlands; the term No Man's Land connoting the tribal areas, areas which\nform the part of the country of Afghanistan was first used by\nLord Roberts.\n\nDuring the term of office of Lord Lawncedown, the school\nof Forward Policy was very much at the forefront of policies;\ntwo persons, one being the Governor General and the other the\nCommander in Chief when they got together, could Produce noth-\ning else than uneasiness in Afghanistan, the Treaty of Gundumak;\nand the preoccupation of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan during the\nfirst years of his reign, and took advantage of conditions in this\ncountry; so that gradually the passes of Gomal, Kurram and Chitral\nas well as other regions were annexed. Amir Abdur Rahman\nKhan saw these intrusions with considerable disgust; and thus not\nonly did he express himself verbally but in actual fact he (the Amir)\nmade official protestations against the English designs. Some of\nthis we had showed in our article in the newspaper Annis-under\nthe Heading \"Amir Abdur Rahman Khan and the Durrand Line,\"\n-dated 8th. Hamal 1330. Shumzi. As a result of all this, the Eng-\nlish were compelled to take in hand the question of boundry\nline in the year 1893. A. D. a boundry line between Afghanistan\nand India, as an immediate measure. The English were of the\nopinion that inorder to arrange the matter of a boundry bdtween\nthe two countries, they might send Lord Robert to Afghanistan; but the\nAmir Abdur Rahman Khan, who knew that man's purpose from\nthe very beginnig, and abhored him; he did not agree that a del-\negation may come till Robert was in India: thus Mortimond\nDurrand was appointed for the purpose and came to Kabul.","chars":2102,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00113.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/113","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/113","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."}}