{"book":"adl1197","page":120,"text":"-107-\n\nTHIRTEENTH CLAUSE.\n\nWhenevr the Khalsa Raj may require military aid from\nthe king in virtue of this agreement, the king shall send his\ntroops under the command of big Sirdars; and likewise, the\nKhalsa Raj for the purpose of help,as laid down in this Agreement\nshall send its Moslem troops under the command of important\ncommanders to Kabul. When the ruler of the Khalsas may visit\nPeshawar, one of the Princes representing the king should come\nto pay respect to the Sikh ruler; and the Princes shall be\nreceived with due honour and consideration.\n\nFOURTEENTH CLAUSE.\n\nThe friends and enemies of the Khalsa Raj and friends\nand enemies of the East India Company, shall be the friends and\nenemies of the King.\n\nIFFTEENTH CLAUSE.\n\nTwo lakhs of Nanukshahi rupees or rupees of ordinary kind,\nshall be sent annually to the Khalsa Raj without fail by the king\nin exchange for the expenses of troops used to establish the king\nupon his throne. From the Khalsa Raj troops consisting of five\nthousand cavalry and infantry shall be posted at Peshawar, which\ncould be sent to help the king with the co-operation and help of\nthe honourable East India Company if and when required. Should\na larger threat materialise from the west, then the stemming of it\nshall be undertaken jointly by the Sikh Raj and the Honourable\nEast India Comany.If the Khalsa Raj may require the services of the\ntroops of the king, the sum to be paid for that shall be adjudged\naccording to a special assessment in the light of the time of\nservice; and the honourable East India Company shall pay such\nassessed sum to the Khalsa Raj, when the conditions of this\nagreement are fully adhered to; such a payment shall be paid\nannually.","chars":1699,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00120.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/120","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/120","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."}}