{"book":"adl1197","page":156,"text":"- 139 -\nhouse of the English commercial attache Alexander Burnes, burnt\ndown his house and killed him as also his brother Charles Burnes,\nand a great national movement was set on foot at Kabul. This\nstruggle was continued in the shape of the battles which took place\nbetween the Afghan nationalists and the English in such places as\nShair Pore, hillsides of Bibi Maro and etc, so that on the eleventh\nday of this national up rising Abdullah Khan Achakzai received\nmyrtyrdom and the day after Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan arrived\nfrom Bokhara and joined in the battle. During the four years of\nthe English occupation of Afghan territory, the people did not\naccept the English protegs-Shahshuja-as the king, and for the time\nbeing had considered Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan as a ruler.\nEven at that time of political vaccillations Nayab Aminullah\nKhah was regarded as the Nayab of Second Status, or indeed,\nas a Nayabul Saltana. In the Treaty as signed between the\nretreating English and the leaders of the nation-a treaty which\nwas not kept by the English-and is a very important document\nrelating to Afghan history (First January 1842. A. D.) signed at\nKabul. Nayab Aminullah Khan has been spoken of in the document\nas (The Second Status Nayab of High Honour His Excellency\nNayab Aminullah Khan) which is the greatest proof of this\nnational hero's integrity and importance. After the evacuation\nof the English forces from Kabul and the moving out of the\nElphinstone column towards Jalalabad, when Amir Dost Mohamed\nKhan was a political detenue in India, and Sirdar Mohamed Akbar\nKhan was engaged in battling against the English at Jalalabad,\nwhile at Kabul Shahshuja and Sirdar Mohamed Zaman Khan were\nstruggling for the throne, and the Polleck column was moving\ntowards Afghanistan from India as an act of revenge against the\nAfghan nation and was nearing Jalalabad from Peshawar, the only\nperson who watched for an oppoprtunity in this holocaust when\ninternecine conflict was at its highest, was Nayab Aminullah Khan\nLogari. When he saw that the temper of the patriots was beginning\nto cool down in bewilderment, and the English were still at\nKandahar and Jalalabad, the Nayab tried hard to produce a recon-\nciliation between Shahshuja and Nawab Mohamed Zaman Khan.\nHe also endeavoured to persuade the Saduzai king to move against","chars":2326,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00156.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/156","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/156","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."}}