{"book":"adl1197","page":182,"text":"—163—\nagainst his king. He then went further and kept back all revenues\nwhich were due to the central Government.\n\nAs soon as these unseeming activities of Azad Khan reached\nthe ears of the king in Afghanistan, he sent an officer, one named\nMir Mohamed Ali Khan, known as Kifayat Khan to give \"good ad-\nvice\" to the rebel. The king's messenger, due to his wisdom mana-\nged to persuade the rebel to come to his senses, and not to indulge\nin such acts against the government. He also advised him to send\nthree lakhs of rupees to Afghanistan and be received at the king's\naudience.\n\nThe \"rebel\" governor had hardly emerged from Kashmir, when\nthe king heard further reports against Azad Khan from the lips of\nhis brothers namely Murtaza Khan and Zaman Khan, who had been\nasked by their brother-the governor of Kashmir-to leave Kashmir,\nand who had taken refuge at the Afghan court. The king became\nenraged against Azad Khan and commanded that thirty thousand\nfighting men should immediately be go to Kashmir and that Azad\nKhan should be punished. The kings's army encamped Kashmir on\nthe outskirts of a village named Nakli on the banks of the river\nMuzaffarabad. It so happened that Azad Khan at that time was on\nthe other side of the river in the house of his father in law. A\nbattle, therefore took place between the troops of the king and the\nKashmirees. Mullah Azam Khan, the commander of Kashmir troops\nwas killed and the king's troops were victorious. Two thousand\nmen of Azad Khan were drowned in the river at Muzarffabad, and\nthe rebel governor wanted to flee, but his cousin, one named Pahlawan\nKhan dissuaded him and Made him withstand the onslaught,so that by\nrepeated attempts at fighting, the rebel's troops steadily achieved the\nupper hand, and the king's forces were defeated. Having gained victory\nAzad Khan returned to Kashmir and the king's men retreated to Kabul.\n\nIt is related that during this fighting the Yusuf Zai clans,\nand those of Peshawar, showed loyalty to the Saduzai kings' cause.\nOne of them Syed Olul Shah belonging to the clan of Utman Khail\nfought so gallantly, despite many wounds, that he was brought be-","chars":2137,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00182.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/182","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/182","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."}}