{"book":"adl1197","page":155,"text":"--138--\n\nThere is little doubt that the Khan of Logar preferred to keep himself neutral in these internecine conflicts, but as long as he thought that the crown would continue to be held by one of the members of the Sadozai clan, he continued his support to that House. Shahshuja appointed Aminullah Khan as the head of Logar and Butkhak, and he made at Logar various improvements, such as the building of bridges, water channels, and forts, some of which carry his name to this day.\n\nWith the Barakzies, the Nayab had a friendly dealing, and each of them respected and valued him. In addition to this with the Barakzais he had made family connections; so that one of his daughters was married to Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan - the national hero - and the other was the wife of Sirdar Shumsuddin Khan. During the rule of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan the revenue of Logar and Butkhak was under the Nayab, and this was accredited by religious and legal documents. The fame of Nayab Aminullah Khan is more closely associated with those activities which he undertook during the first Afghan War when the English invaded this country. When the English, under pretexts of various kinds, disturbed the peace of Afghanistan, as all know, and brought discord and produced uneasiness against the rule of the rightful king Amir Dost Mohamed Khan, and their invading forces marched in from Kandahar and Ghazni into Kabul, and holding this country down for four years (from 1838 to 1842, A. D. ) plunged this country into distress and turmoil, there is little doubt that the leaders of the nation did not just sit idle, and did not plan out schemes to redeem the nation's honour and independence which was usurped by the cruel hands of the foreign protege - Shahshuja. On the contrary they persevered till the 2nd. of November of the year 1841. A. D. arrived and four gallant and volorous persons of resuscieated the national life in the country.\n\nThese four men, namely Abdullh Khan Achakzai, Aminullah Khan Logari, Sikundar Khan and Abdus Salam Khan had a secret conference at the hous of Abdullah Khan Achakzie, decided the fateful hour, and before the people moved out of their houses in the morning, they had gathered nationa support, and marched to the","chars":2236,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00155.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/155","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/155","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."}}