{"book":"adl1197","page":16,"text":"- 5 -\n\nnot appreciate the fact that although there was a clear similiarity\nbetween his desires and that which his grandfather had wished and\nhad achieved the place and time had no similiarity.\n\nThe lack of appreciation of this fact, and the taking of a new\nroute produced failure for his efforts not only in Indian expedi-\ntions , but also contributed-as fundamental reasons-to his fall at home.\nAt whatever time Ahmed Shah Durrani attacked India , he pro-\nceded whereever he wanted to go. But Zaman Shah inspite of\nthe fact that the Punjab formed a part of his realm , that is of\nSaduzai dynasty , and that Zaman Shah actually reached Lahore\nseveral times ; he could not take a single step forward beyond\nLahore. The troops of the East India Company , who had been\nbased in India had found that the defeat of the Marahttas at the hands\nof the Afghans , and the Battles of Panipat had cleared the road\nfor their march north-west of India : they , thereore , skirting the\nGanges basin came forward and were playing with the then\nconditions in the Punjab .\n\nIt is related that the Directors of the East India Company ,\nand especially those who were conducting the penetration policy\nof imperialism in regards to India, were excercised in mind on account\nof Napoleon's interest in India on one side , and of the\ninterest shown by the Czars of Russia on the other . These points\nare certainly true . But these fears were born in the minds of\nthe Directors of the East India Company after 1799. A. D. for\nthey had been watching attentively from their distant base at\nCalcutta,that their first and immediate danger was the progress of Zaman\nShah , the Sadu zai king of Afghanistan . They noted that every\nyear at least once , the fighting men from the Tirah hills , Safaid\nKoh and the Khyber area together with the Afghan troops , the\nking marched up to Lahore , as the last frontier town of his king-\ndom , and cast upon thh whole of India an ominous shadow .\n\nLord Wellesley , the English Governor , who was in Indian\nthe Agent of the East India Company , soon appreciated the fact\nthat when an Afghan king ruled in the Afghan areas-areas that\nincluded the eastern and south-eastern portions of north India-it","chars":2205,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00016.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/16","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/16","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."}}