{"book":"adl1197","page":178,"text":"-159-\ninfluence of Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan, which made him\nshow a spirit of co-operation and contentment for what he was being\noffered as a reward for his services,) but upon Amir Dost Mohamed\nKhan's accession to the throne, and due to the conflict with\nthe Amir's foreign policy, a difference of opinion on foreign\npolicy arose between the two. According to the agreement\nwhich he had made with the English at Kandahar, that he will\nnot interfer with the Indian affairs, also in regards to the Herat\nquestion, too, the Amir hesitated till the last, inorder to know the\ninclination of the English. In as much as Sirdar Sultan Ahmed\nKhan was the avowed enemy of the English and their imperialist\ndesigns in the east, he was, therefore, unable to fall in with the\nviews of the Amir, for the Amir was bound by engagements with\nthe English. At last he left Afghan territory due to personal antago-\nnism, and went to Tehran. In order to rival Amir Dost Mohamed\nKhan and to oppose the English wherever he could find them,\nhe accepted the governorship of Herat as liege to the Persians.\nIt was this decision that made the uncle and the nephew, the\nfather-in-law and the son-in-law oppose each other from behind\nthe walls of Herat, and to fight out the issue till they died.\n\nAmir Dost Mohamed Khan moved from Kabul together with\nseveral Sirdars and leaders towards Herat on 8th. Shawal 1277.\nA. H. The advance party was sent under Sirdar Shair Ali Khan\nand Sidars Mohamed Amin Khan and Sirdar Mohamed Sharif\nKhan-Dost Mohamed Khan's sons who on the way took the city\nof Farah from Mir Afzal Khan, an appointee of Sirdar\nSultan Ahmed Khan. The Amir at the head of his own army\njoined the advance party. The combined forces after breaf\nengagements against Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan's son Shahnawaz\nKhan at Subzawar and the environs of the city, surrounded the\ncity of Herat. Thus the city of Herat was beseiged on the 10th of\nSafar 1278. A. H. ( August 1861. A. D. ) For five days the beseiging\narmy dug up trenches around the city, and frequent night raids,\ntunnelling and sundry engagements continued for six months.\n\nSirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan, during the difficult days of\nsiege wrote a letter to Nasiruddin Qajjar seeking help, but the","chars":2230,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00178.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/178","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/178","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."}}