{"book":"adl1197","page":164,"text":"-147-\nthe man whom they had placed at the throne of Kabul. It has also\nbeen said that Shahshuja himself had a hand in the events then\nhappening at Kandahar. But this would certainly not be the case, for\nwhen Shahshuja heard that the revolt Kandahar at was being imputed\nby some quarters to him he is related to have said that if he could\nfind the person who promted that lie, he would have the tongue of\nsuch a man torn out from its roots.\n\nAs we ourselves know, and the English have mentioned in their\nown writings, Vazir Yar Mohamed Khan Dawari had a great share\nin opposing the combined rule of the English and Shahshuja. As\nwe had said in our article entitled YAR MOHAMED KHAN ALKO-\nZI, this man had done a great deal in thwarting the English designs\nand those of the Persians and the Russians regarding their desire\nto gain ascendency over Herat when he was a minister of Kamran\nShah, and had taken advantage of the money of the English in\norder to strengthen his master's position in Herat, and yet had\nnot yielded to the English in giving any preferential rights in that\nlocality to English trade or English Politics. It was his efforts which\nbrough the activities of Pottinger and Stuart and Todd in Herat\nto nought. Again it was he, who with the help of the Persians in\nMeshad, and the movement set up by Akhtar Khan, and Akram Khan\ndid everything to protect the Dawar region from English penetration\nand their explusion from the areas of Arghandab and the Helmand\nbasin. These matters are made known in one of his letters which\ncontains the following points:\n\n(... Every one of you should collect your followers, and betake\nyourselves to Dawar and be prepared there. I, too, will reach from\nHerat for help, and from Meshad we expect to receive help in the\nshape of ten thousand fighting men, and twelve guns and two lakhs\nof rupees. I shall come with great speed by the end of Muhharram\nat Bukwa. Be sure that none of the Durrani nobles who have been\ngathered together do not disperse. I shall be coming for certain. . .)\n\nWhen at that time, too, Vazir Yar Mohamed Khan, had expelled\nTodd from Herat, the English had considered this action of the\nVazir as a great slight upon themselves. Macnaughton in great wrath","chars":2224,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00164.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/164","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/164","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."}}