{"book":"adl1197","page":131,"text":"- 118 -\ntowards Ghazni and Kabul. and encamped under the walls and\nturrets of Ghazni. Sirdar Ghulam Haider Khan, as the governor and\ndefender of Ghazni - deputed as he was from his father Amir\nDost Mohamed Khan, provided with all weapons of defence, prepared\nto defend the city. The English, however, attacking the northern\ngate of Ghazni set alight the gateway of Bahlol, captured the city.\nand took Sirdar Ghulam Haider Khan prisoner, and placed him\nunder the serveillance of Yaqut Khan. The Great Amir hearing of\nthese events called one Nawab Jabbar Khan - one of his brothers -\nand asked him to go to Ghazni on the pretext of enquiring about\nthe wife and children of the captured Afghan defender of the city\nand to see as to what he could find and to collect what information\nhe could, so that something might be done about the events that\nwere to develop as a result of the fall of Chazni. Nawab Jabbar\nKhan started on his way to Ghazni, pretending that he was the host\nof one Alexander Burnes whom he had helped on many occasions, and\nto try to have Sirdar Ghulam Haider Khan released and to bring him\nalong with him to Kabul. Upon his arrival at Ghazni, he started\nparleys with the English, and after much discussion , the English\nterms were made known to Sirdar Jabbar Khan, to the effect that\neither the Amir ahould renounce his throne of Kabul and go to\nIndia as a pensioner of the British government and receive one lakh\nof ruppees annually ; or to fight on and let the best man win the\nbattle.\n\n*               *               *\n\nSECOND NOVEMBER OF 1841.\n\nARTICLE THIRTIETH\nIn the historical life of the people of Afghanistan, the days\nof victory and defeat, days of gloom and of happiness, times of\ngreatness and of decline are intermixed, which ought to be studied\nwith their respective colour and effect of those times,so that the\nnation may observe some of those of the days of its life when\nit was under a cloud. The date of Second of November, 1841. A.D.\n( 18th. Ramazan 1257. A.H. ) was a day of determination, of\nsteadfastness, of great stress and national up-rising.","chars":2087,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00131.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/131","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/131","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."}}