{"book":"adl1197","page":183,"text":"-164-\nfore Azad Khan and was the object of much appreciation from the\ngovernor of Kashmir. Impressed by the fighting qualities of this\nman, it is related that the rebel governor enrolled one thousand\nand five hundred of his Yusufzai clansmen in his army. When His\nMajesty Timour Shah heard the news of defeat of his army, he\nthereupon resolved to take an expedition himself to the east. With\na great army he arrived at Peshawar, giving the command of the army,\nthe military quarters and the arrangements of war to Sirdar Madad\nKhan Isshaq Zai. Madad Khan took his men across the river Indus\nnear Attock to the confines of Kashmir. Azad Khan on his part\nstood on the defensive. Whilst small engagements took place, Madad\nKhan got a certain number of Azad Khan's men to withdraw their\nallegiance towards him, and brought them to the king's fold by\npromises and other devices. By the order of Azad Khan, Shadi Khan\nmade a night attack upon the king's forces, but as Madad Khan\nwas well informed of that plan, battles were fought out and as\nAzad Khan heard of the plans of the king's commander and\nfound that he could not cope with it, took refuge in the house of\nhis father in law. The father in law of Azad Khan did not want to\nimplicate himself with his son in law's evil doings, therefore, with\nthe help and co-operation of the king's commander, he (the father\nin law) by degrees reduced the number of Azad Khan's men and\nwhen one day Azad Khan was sleep alone in a room, his father in law\nlocked the door of the room, and the rebel was Captured. His father\nin law was rewarded by being installed as an officer of two thousand\nhorsemen in the service of the king.\n\nAzad Khan finding that his opposition had no further meaning\nwanted to blow up his brains with a revolver, but he himself took\nout Azad's eyes and then cut his head and sent the rebel's head to\nthe king at Peshawar and continued to be in the king's service.\n\nIt is related that Timour Shah was really distressed about the\nmurder of Azad Khan, whom he regarded as a great fighter with a\nmanly character. The rebel was buried with due honours by the or-\nder of the king, and his mother was summoned from Kandahar. When\nshe was asked to remarry, and take on one of the nobles of the court as","chars":2253,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00183.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/183","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/183","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."}}