{"book":"adl1197","page":197,"text":"-78-\nthat their important men were killed, their army was destroyed,\nShahshuja was thrown out, and the prestige of the British was cast\nto the dust and disgrace, and those who had driven Amir Dost\nMohamed Khan from his country, had to bring him back to his\nthrone with the same grandeur and honour as before and to place\nhim on the throne of Afghanistan. Furthermore, that pact which\nhad been projected in 1837. A. D. was once again revived in 1855,\nA.D. and 1857. A.D. During the years when the Russians found a\nfooting in Central Asia and came nearer the northern borders of\nAfghanistan, the English made their position stronger in the\nPunjab. John Lawrence, the governor of the Punjab, the advocate\nof the Back to the Indus Policy, who considered the natural boundry\nto be the Indus river returned to India as a Viceroy. Between\nthese two there was an affinity of thought. In the like manner Lord\nMayo too agreed with the Amir, but with the appointment of Lord\nNorthbrook as a Viceroy (who belonged to the Forward Policy )-\nwhatever effort was Amir Shair Ali Khan made regarding an agree-\nment with the English against the Russians, no attention was paid\nto his proposals, even the promise to give help in case of Russian\naggressive was not given. Amir Shair Ali Khan's desire to offi-\ncially acknowledge Sirdar Abdullah Khan as heir was also opposed\nand due to a regrettable lack of appreciation of the opportunity\non the part of the Viceroy and his English statesment the Amir of\nAfghanistan was compelled to turn his face away from the English\nand to incline himself towards the Russians. The Russian represen-\ntative at Kabul had, therefore, to be received by the king of Afghanis-\ntan. This favourable attitude of the Afghan king towards the Rus-\nsians,quite naturally displeased the English,and made them realise their\nown mistakes, and they began to have doubts about the Afghan\nmonarch. After that Silya Sabri and Lytton occupied the\nviceroyalty of India respectively and arrived at Simla. Lord\nLytton had come with instructions from England saying that\nat whatever cost possible, he was to win back the king of the Afghans\nand his rightful heir, and to fall in with their views. But once again\nthe matter slipped out of their hands, for the Afghan King of such\nenlightment and a man of such stout purpose, could not over throw all\nhis engagements with the Russians, and to expel the Russian represen-\ntative from Kabul and to receive the English Agent in his stead. This","chars":2482,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00197.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/197","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/197","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."}}