{"book":"adl1197","page":14,"text":"- 3 -\n\nlarge number of clan nobles, ascended the throne of his father in\nthe year 1773. A. H.\n\nIn the first instance, the new king bestowed rather more of\nhis interest towards the first born of Haji Jamal Khan, one named\nRahim Dad Khan, and acknowledged him as the leader of the great\nBarakzai Clan; but as he was devoid of the qualities of leadership,\nfor he was somewhat of a miser-the Afghans as a rule are not ena-\nmoured by a man who has not a large table and is not hospitable,\nand thus, the people of the tribes showed their disapproval of the man;\nthe king impelled by these tribal complaints exalted the second son\nof Haji Jamal Khan to the leadership of the Barkazai clan, naming\nhim as Sarfaraz Khan. The newly installed leader of the Barakzais-\nPayanda Khan-now known as Sarfaraz Khan made every effort to\nserve the best interests of the administration of Tamur Shah. The\nfirst service which he rendered, was that he pacified a trouble\nwhich had arisen against Tamur Shah on the part of the minister\nof Ahmed Shah Durrani, one named Shah Wali Khan - who incited\nan uncle of the late king Ahmed Shah - one named Abdul Khalib\nKhan - to raise a standard of revolt. Despite the fact that Payanda\nKhan had not had a large number of troops, yet he managed to win.\nLater Payanda Khan was appointed to serve in Kashmire with Dila-\nwar Khan Ashaq Zai, and after that he was in charge of revenue\ndepartment of Quetta and Thal where the excellence of his service\nwas deeply appreciated . The king was highly pleased with him\nand he was entrusted with the Ghi Lzai administration to his previously\ndicated duties. His place near the ruler was now assured , and later\nin the reign of Tamur Shah, when trouble arose in the region of\nPeshawar and in Balkh, both of these mouvement being of great dan-\nger to the king, he came to the forefront and served his ruler, thus\ncompletely securing the steady rule for his mentor. As has been\njudged in history, Timour Shah had not those great qualities which\ncharacterised his remarkable father ; so that if one were to probe\ndeeply into the historical development of that age, one would soon\ndiscover that the man who again and again strengthened the roots of\nTamour Shah's reign for no less than twenty years, with his valour,\nhis forsight, and his selflessness, was no other than Payanda Khan.","chars":2335,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00014.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/14","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/14","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."}}