{"book":"adl1197","page":122,"text":"--109--\n\nThat which had been laid down in this treaty is fully\nand without reservation acceptable to all the three contracting\nparties; namely the king, the East India Company and the Khalsa\nRaj; and the terms of this treaty shall remain permanent; and\nafter the seal and signature of the three parties this has been\nso enacted, written on the 15th of the month of Har Sumbat\n1895 at Lahore.\"\n\nAccording to the various historical records, Mcnaughten, prior\nto this agreement had spoken of a scheme of an invasion of Afghani-\nstan-towards Kabul - with the Sikh troops and at the head of which\nshall be placed Prince Timour, the son of Shah Shuja; of the entry\nof Shahshuja whith his troops in Afghanistan by way of Kandahar\naccompanied by Sirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan. Shahshuja, too, made\ncertain observations in this regard: that none of the Durrani princes\nshall have any claim or share in the running of his kingdom; and\nthat he shall be permitted to wage war in all directions, such as\nKabul, Kandahar, Bulkh, Seistan and Bluchistan and Shikarpore. That\nthe dependencies of Kandahar and Shikarpore shall be under his rule.\n\nAfter the English troops leave Kabul, one of the English\nrepresentatives should remain at Kabul; as also that some English\nofficers should be given to him for the training of troops in Afgha-\nnistan; that two lakhs of rupees which he had undertaken to give\nto the Sikhs would be considered as a kind of tribute, and his soverei-\ngnty thereby shall be in question; therefore, he was prepared to\nrenounce his ownership of Shikarpore in payment thereof.\n\nThese were the stipulations, which were made by Shah Shuja on\nthe basis of the Treaty. From an analysis of this, it would appear\nthat whereas the deposed and the refugee king which he was, although\ndependent upon the support of the English and the Sikhs and knowing\nfully well that his success depended upon their help; he was yet\ndesirous to protect his kingdom upon a higher and greater orbit:\nbut unfortunately, his co-operators - especially the English - were not\nsuch from whom he could receive any benefit in this direction; so\nthat in virtue of this Unfortunate Treaty, both the Sikhs and the\nEnglish took magnificient advantage.","chars":2214,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00122.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/122","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/122","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."}}