{"book":"adl1197","page":176,"text":"-157-\nwhen the question of Herat was settled through English intervention at the Persian Gulf vide the Agreement which was signed on the 4th of March 1857 A. D. Any person, therefore, anyone who was the rival of Amir Dost Mohamed Khan, and an enemy of the English was, of course, a great \"asset\" for the persians, who thought that by giving asylum to the disgrountled Afghans at Herat, their purpose could be well served. It was further considered by the Persians (although they the persians) had undertaken under the treaty made with the English regarding the non-intervention in Herat affairs, not to do so) they could use an Afghan at Herat for their own desings, an Afghan who was at one and the same time an enemy of the English and a rival to Amir Dost Mohmed Khan. According to this idea Nasiruddin Qajjar showed much respect to Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan, and his son, for he gave the title of SIRKAR to Sirdar Sultan Ahmad Khan, and bestowed the title of Amir Panji upon the Sirdar's son. In these circumstances, there for a struggle was precipitated between a great Afghan hero, rich with the services of the nation, and Amir Dost Mohamed Khan at a time when the unity of the Kingdom was in the making. And all this due to personal interests and on account of the refuge taken by the Sirdar at the Persian court as also by his governorship of Herat. He was, too, the son in law of Amir Dost Mohamed khan for his wife was the real sister of Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan and Amir Shair Ali Khan. Here was an unfortunate position, for so close a relationship was converted into deep animosity.\n\nWhen the sending of letters and communications did little good, and as Sirdar Sultan Ahmed khan now contemplated an expedition against Farah, Amir Dost Mohamed Khan was compelled to settle the Herat question once and for all. An expedition was sent out against Sirdar Sultan Ahmed khan under the leadership of Sirdar Shair Ali khan, and the Amir himself leaving his winter quarters Jalalabad, and having placed matters of Kabul and Kandahar on a firm footing, left for Herat. The armies encamped close to the walls of the city of Herat.\n\nThis sad story of battles between the nephew and the uncle, the battle between the father and the husband, and this tug of war between the king and a heroic Sirdar, is one of the tragedies of those times. The siege lasted for ten months, and","chars":2376,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00176.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/176","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/176","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."}}