{"book":"adl1197","page":163,"text":"-146-\nWhen the English occupied Jalalabad, Kandhar, Ghazni and Kabul\nin the name of Shahshuja in 1255.A.H. (1839.A.D.) they had placed\non the throne one of the sons of Shahshuja, Fateh Jung whereas\nthe real government was in the hands of Major Linch at Kandahar.\nBut as difference of opinion arose between Linch and Macnaugh-\nton, the Political Adviser of the English at Kabul, Linch was replaced by\nMajor Rawlinson who had seen service for years in Iran. Rawlinson\nspoke persian well and was well versed with the conditions in the\nEast. He was appointed on 4th. July 1840. A. D. in his new post at\nKandahar, and ofcourse, the military command was under General Nott.\nThe general however was highly self-opinionated and of very limited\nvision regarding greater things. Macnaughton, too, was not too\npleased with General Nott.\n\nDuring the first year of the unified rule of the English and\nShahshuja (1840.A.D. ) while Shahshuja held, through English support\nof course, an unwilling mastery over Kabul and the regions of the\nsouthern Hindu Kush, the English helped to improve some of the\nactivities of internal administration-according to certain views. But\nmuch time had not passed, when the banner of resistance against\nthem and their protege Shah Shuja was raised at Kandahar and\nin the north-west of that area.\n\nThe outbreak in the area of Dawar is imputed by some to\nbe due to the collection of land revenue (this is the English version )\nby Shah Shuja, while others think that the insurrection was caused\nthrough the jealousy of the Barakzais and Sadozais Mr. Close, an\nEnglish writer believes that the Dawar revolt was caused by one\nAkhtar khan, who was not elected as the head of that region. But\naccording to the version of John William Key, an English author\nof a book entitled The History of the Afghan Wars, the real reason\nof that movement was the resentment of the people of Dawar and\nAkhtar khan due to the interference of the foreigners in their land,\nthat is to say the English were interfering in the life and work of\nthe Dawar people. The author says that the English had forgotten that\ntheir unpopularity was due to the activity of the king whom they\n( the English) had placed upon the throne of Afghanistan. And that\nthe presence of these English forces was directly disadvantageous to","chars":2304,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00163.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/163","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/163","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."}}