{"book":"adl1197","page":136,"text":"- 123 -\n\nAfghans to a pass and point from where the people could see the\nrising star of the birth of their independence. By a happy coinci-\ndence when Ahdullah Khan Achakzai fell moratally wounded, Sirdar\nMohamed Akbar Khan, the gallant son of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan-who\nwas at Bokhara for a long time-reached Kabul and took up the task\nof the national liberation, leading the people to waids new Vistas,\nwith revived spirits for the national cause, which brought out the\nhidden qualities and urges of the people to the fore.\n\n* * *\n\nTHE ABANDONING OF SHAIRPORE.\n6th. January 1842.A.D.\n\nARICLE : THIRTY SECONDTH\n\nFrom the 7th of August 1839. A.D. to 6th of January 1842.A.D.\nfor a period of about two and a half years, the English forces\nstayed at Kabul. They were supposed to be there in order\nto help Shahshuja : Their camp during that \"un-invited\"stay was\nsituated at a \"fort\" rectangular in shape which was styled\nthe Cantonemert or Chawani. This place was outside the city\non the northern outskirts towards the eastern roadway which\nran straight from the capital to a small willage known as the\nvillage of Bibi Maro and connected it with the city. After\nthe reign of Amir Shair Ali Khan, when a suburb was named\nShairpore on the south-west of the village of Bibi Maro, and\nthe area was made a military base, this locality during the\nSecond Afghan War was very well known as Shair Pore. In\nview of the fact that according to the name and fame that\nShairpore had acquired due to its military significance and\nwarfare durins the aggressive wars of the English, and the\npart that this region had played in that struggle, and further-\nmore to the fact that during our first struggle against the\nEnglish invasion it had not assumed any foreign importance,\ntherefore nistead of styling this chapter as \"Chawani\",we have\nnamed it \"Shairpore\" thus the heading of the chapter has\nbeen put as the \"Abandoning of Shairpore\".","chars":1917,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00136.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/136","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/136","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."}}