{"book":"adl1197","page":166,"text":"- 149 -\n\nGhilzais. Akhtar Khan found his opportunity, for although the\nDurrani rulers had reduced the levy of revenues, and other\nadjustments had been made in the Dawari administration, but as\nthe men of Dawar were very much against the foreigners they\npaid no attention to the reduction of revenues and other adminis-\ntrative re-adjustments and backed by three thousand fighting\nmen Akhtar Khan rose against the English.\n\nMacnaughton was now beside himself regarding the second\nrevolt of Akhtar Khan, and wrote to Rawlinson that whose-ever\ncould produce the severed head of that nobleman of Dawar,\nshall receive a reward of ten thousand rupees. The English authors\nwriting of these matters, generally believed that every revolt of\nthis description that raised its head was due to the individual\ninterest of persons, and had always felt that the people of Afghanistan\nwould be willing to come under the foreign yoke. Thus, they\nthought that Akhtar Khan had become their enemy for personal\naggrandisement, and that his head could be purchased with money.\nAll the English officers, and more especially Rawlinson himself\nat Kandahar could see that the position of the English in\nAfghanistan was getting precarious every day, and that a political\ndeluge was about to come upon them one day.\n\nMacnaughton, sent out from Kabul one of his officers\nnamed Warburton of Shahshuja's force with a unit of the Fifth\nInfentry together with a cavalry unit and guns, the whole number\nof which was . . . . . . . ( incomplete . . . . . ) version in Persian\nhas been omitted here, for on page 119 ( Persian version ) the\nmaterial runs out; and page 120 of Persian Version begins with\na quite different subject . . . . . . . ( translator. )\n\nTHE RISE & FALL OF KANDAHARI SIRDARS.\n\nARTICLE: THIRTY NINTH\n\nAs a result of the Barakzai Brothers, a feudal form\nof administration came into being in Afghanistan. But the\nBarakzai Sirdar at Kandahar and in its environs established","chars":1953,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00166.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/166","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/166","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."}}