{"book":"adl1197","page":18,"text":"- 7 -\n\nlish Mission under the leadership of one named Malcolm undertook to carry matters further afield .\n\nMeantime, other circumstances took shape; for some time the Qadjar kings themselves undertook aggressive movements against the Afghan kings; whilst at other occasions, disgruntled Afghan princes, like Firouz Uddin and Kamran were encouraged to produce disturbance on the western frontiers of Afghanistan. When the Af-ghan king was thus engaged to pacify the western frontiers of his realm, the Sikh Rajas, like Sahib Singh, Gulab Singh, Mahabat Singh and Ranjit Singh moved in the easter regions of the Afghan territory in the rear. There is little doubt that in both of these discomforting movements east and west, the hidden hand of the East India Company was at work. These activities kept Zaman Shah, some time in the West and at times in the East wholly occupied. On all occasions, advantage was taken in his absence; so that when he was so occupied, a stroke was administered upon him on various points and his plans were disrupted.\n\nZaman Shah, meantime, was greatly interested in Indian matters and his hope of marching further into that country, thus, he gave little attention and care to that which happened in the western fringes of his kingdom. Every year, therefore, after assuming power, in the year 1793. A. D. he used to visit Peshawar, Attock, and Lahore - always, of course, with the intention of taking another step forward beyond Lahore into the heart of India. That which rather strongly encouraged the Afghan king in his desire to enter into the vital parts of India, were the constant invitations of the Nababs of Delhi, those of Oudh and of Mysore. As the writers (English) themselves have recorded , the event of Zaman Shah's arrival in Lahore, used to create considerable tremours in India; and his penetration upto Lahore gave thought to many minds, regarding the earlier victories of his grand father Ahmed Shah in the land of the Hind.\n\nThe Sadu Zai king ving visited the Punjab many times such as in the years: 1783, 1795, 1796, 1797,1799; and Sikh Rajas at the time were scattered about in localities such as Gujrat, Wazirabad, Lahore, and Amritsar; and all of them were the vassals of the Sadu","chars":2232,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00018.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/18","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/18","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."}}