{"book":"adl1197","page":169,"text":"- 152 -\nwas permitted to return home from India, these Barakzai Brothers\nalso returned to Kandahar, and Sirdar Kuhin Dil Khan once again\ntook the government of Kandahar into his hand.\n\nThe Sirdars Mihr Dil Khan and Kohin Dil Khan died within a few\nmonths of each other (the first named on the 27th of Jamadus Sani;\nand the later on the 8th of Zilbij of 1271.A.H.) It was the seventh\nyear of the reign of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan when upon the death\nof Sirdar Kuhin Dil Khan a rift appeared into the ranks of the\nKandahar Sirdars and their influence began to wane.\n\nParticulars of this event are that after the death of Kohin Dil\nKhan, his son Sirdar Mohamed Sadiq Khan, and his uncle Sirdar\nRahm Dil Khan became contestants for rulership of Kandahar. A\nstruggle ensued. Although Rahm Dil Khan eventually was victorious,\nyet Sirdar Mohamed Sadiq Khan succeeded in gathering round him\nhis cousins and continued to agitate. These causins being the sons\nof Pur Dil Khan and Mihr Dil Khan. Each one of these cousins\nconsidered himself as the proper claimant, and as in one of these\nbattles one Mir Afzal, the son of Pur Dil Khan was killed the whole\nmatter assumed a very grave aspect, and the nephews of Rahm\nDil Khan appealed to their other uncle the Amir at Kabul to\ninterfere in Kandahar matters.\n\nIn the first instance Amir Dost Mohamed Khan sent a messenger\nto his brother at Kandahar to mend his ways, and to come within\nthe pale of Kabul government, but as this method did not\nsucceed, he ordered his son Sirdar Shair Ali Khan, who was his\nfather's representative at Ghazni to march out to Kandahar with a\nsufficient body of trsops, Sirdar Shair Ali Khan did so and bivouaced\nat Deh Khoja near Kandahar. Shair Ali Khan opened overtures\nwith his uncle at Kandahar, and by opening a way into the\ncity he secretly introduced a hundred or two hundred of his men\ndaily into Kandahar till three regiments of Kabul soldiers, and\nfield guns wer hidden in the city at various points.","chars":1975,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00169.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/169","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/169","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."}}