{"book":"adl1197","page":147,"text":"- 132 -\ndown at the hands of the aggressive troops of the English. Thus was burnt down the beautiful Istalif, the home of the patriots amidst the mountains of Kohdaman. But the patriots and their leaders Nayab Aminullah Khan Logari did not surrender, and proved that his foresight ofr the benefit of the nation and the opposition towards the invaders had nothing to do with any shifting temper, time serving, or personal motives.\n\n* * *\n\nF A T E H  J U N G.\n( The king of Bala. Hisar.: )\nARTICLE THIRTY FIFTH\n\nAmongst the many princes, who had sat on the throne at Bala Hisar, one was Fateh Jung, the son of Shah Shuja, the Sadozai. He ascended the throne after a few days of the assassination of his father. But during the short period of six months during which he considered himself king, his writ hardly ran beyond the fortress of Bala Hisar. Beyond the walls of Bala Hisar and its turrets of Yakiaghu, and Bijnaju he had no influence at all. This king one day sat upon the throne at Bala Hisar, and in that very Bala Hisar he was imprisoned, and from that citadel he escaped, and then at that very Bala Hisar he was again put on the throne by the English, and finally from that very Bala Hisar he was expelled by the wrath of the people and accompanied the English to India.\n\n* * *\n\nDuring the summer of the year 1842 A. D. ( 1258 A. H. which was the fourth year of the English occupation of the country, and when the English ignored to fulfill their engagements under clauses 3rd, 4th and 5th of the Treaty of 16th. Zihij, entered into at Kabul, the position was as follows: General Nott at Kandahar and General Sale at Jalalabad had continued to hold their ground contrary to the above mentioned agreement. General Pollock was moving towards Afghanistan with a large force from India. The people at Kabul were in a very anxious plight, and especially events at Bala Hisar gave cause to great uneasiness. The position deteriorated daily.","chars":1943,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00147.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/147","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/147","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."}}