{"book":"adl1197","page":13,"text":"- 2 -\nall ; so that if the comparative strength of the number\nof households of Barakazai and Sauduzais were to be\njudged, the former was almost one ninth or one tenth times grea-\nter than the later. The historians seem to think that the reason of the\nelection of Ahmed Shah to the throne was really due to the fact\nthat his clan was very small, and, therefore, so that if he (Ahmed\nShah) behaved contrary to the interests of the entire clans, then it\nwould be the more easy to dethrone him from the rulership of the whole.\n\nIn any case, the qualities, which could be appreciated in the\nSadu zai Sirdar, he was elected to rule. He was designated as\nHis Majesty Ahmed Shah carrying the title of Duray duran, mea-\nning \"the Pear of Lusture\" ; and the nation styled him as the\nFather of the Nation. Haji Jamal Khan, the leader of the powerful\nclan of Barakzais, who had a great chance for being elected, tram-\npling under foot the self-seeking desires-a disease which had over-\ntaken practically all the leaders of the nation of the time - accepting\nthe leadership of the Saduzai leader as the ruler of entire Afghan-\nistan, thus strengthening the foundation of national integrity .His action,\nat a very critical time of Afghan history, has left a noble mark\nupon the annals of our country. Ahmed Shah, on his part, till the\nend of his time did not fail to respect the valuable services of his\ngreat cooperator, and bestowed all consideration consonant with the\nElders position and sacrifice; so that from the very smallest to the\ngreatest issues of the realm the the advice of Jamal Khan was\nconstantly sought by the king.\n\nKing Ahmed Shah died in the year 1773. A. H. and was soon\nfollowed by his devoted friend Haji Jamal Khan. Circumstances so\ncontrived that, after a brief readjustment, Tamur Shah on one side\nand Payanda Khan on the other - as the respective sons of the older\nfriends - were cast upon the stage in time to perform their duties.\nHaji Jamal Khan had four sons; Rahim Dad Khan, Payanda Khan,\nHaroun Khan and Bahadur Khan. Although after the death of Ahmed\nShah, the deceased king's minister - one named Shah Wali Khan -\nplaced Sulaiman Shah, his son-in-law and the younger of the sons\nof Ahmed Shah Durrani, yet much time had not passed that\nPrince Tamur arriving from Herat, in defference to the wishes of a","chars":2324,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00013.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/13","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/13","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."}}