{"book":"adl1197","page":167,"text":"= 150 =\na local government. In this Unit of administration four of\nthese Barakzai nobles ruled: Sirdar Shair Dil Khan, Sirdar\nPur Dil Khan, Sirdar Mihr Dil Khan and Sirdar Kuhandil\nKhan respectively. But after the death of Sirdar Kuhin Dil\nKhan (7th. Ziqad 1271. A. H.) this system was fortunately\nabrogated, so that Amir Dost Mohamed Khan with his\npolitical acumen and policy and his Son Amir Shair Ali Khan\nbrought the whole under a wellknit system of administration\nand unified the whole under one centre.\n\nAmongst the 21 sons of Sirdar Payanda Khan, five sons\nfrom the same mother-a lady Ghilzai in origin-were famous. They\nwere Sirdars Shair Dil. Pur Dil, Kuhin Dil, Mihr Dil and Rahm Dil.\nThey were also styled as the \"Kandahari Siradrs\". Due to their ma-\nternal influence in the regions of Arghandab, Tarnik, and Helmund\nthe above mentioned appallation was applied to them, as\ncontrasted with the Peshawari Sirdars, that is their brothers\nassociated with the Peshawar area.\n\nThere is little doubt that the rise of the Barakzai Brotherrs\nas a whole, and without differenciating one group from the other,\ngives it in the 19th. century period of Afghan history a unique posi-\ntion. It is a story in to which is knit dramas of various kinds-which\nshow the transfer of power from one dynasty to another, and which\nhad precipitated the country into internal and external entanglement,\nand when the territory was divided up into feudal a form of\ngovernment, into east, south and south west areas.\n\nIn this article, however, we would not concern ourselves with\nthe matter of general rise to power of the Barakzai Brothers, but\nwould interest ourselves only with the progress and development of\nthe power and activities of the Kandahari Sirdars of the Barakzai clan.\n\nWhen Vazir Fateh Khan was blinded by the order of prince\nKamran of Herat the brothers Shair Dil Khan, Pur Dil Khan and\nKohindil Khan left that city and took the city of Kandahar from Gul-\nMohamed Khan, who was then the governor of that town on behalf","chars":2016,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00167.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/167","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/167","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."}}