{"book":"adl1197","page":22,"text":"— 11 —\n\nof events produced its reaction. Secret societies were born against the\nking and his thoughts. Ultimately five persons constituted\na committee in relation the election of the king and his inf\nluence and power, so that the importance should always remain\nin the hands of the elders of the people. This commitee resolved\nto dethrone the king, to kill Rahmat Ullah Khan and to\nelect Shah Shuja for the throne of Afghanistan. This secret, ho-\newever, could not remain hidden from the informers of the king's\nfavourite-Rahmat Ullah Khan-so these secrets reached his ears from\nthe lips of the members of the committee itself.\n\nZaman Shah, first of all considered his own personal safety,\nand changed his Royal Guards; and by giving money, gifts bes\ntowing favours of sorts, captured the friendsip of some of the\npeople and their leaders. But by various dubious ways, surrounded\nthem one by one-one of them being Pyanda Khan-he managed\nto have then assassinated by calling them for consultation as\nruse. Payanda Khan was one of the great leaders of his people\nwhose co.operation had steadied the work of administiation: and thus\nas soon as he fell a victim of his rivals at the hands of the king\nin the country arose those facts fo high tradegy which lasted til\nSecond Anglo-Afghan Wars: during times, Great damage was done\nto the intrests of the country and the nation.\n\nTHE SUCCES AND FAILURE OF ZAMAN SHAH.\n\nFOURTH ARTICE\n\nThe period of reign of Zaman Shah is an admixture of\nevents both successful and of failure. His success was notably in\nthe realm of those battles which he fought against the foreigners.\nHis failure, was largely due to the personal interests of his Courti-\ner, inter-tribal animosities, and inter-clan discords. His ideas were\nsound enough, so far as they went, but in carrying on those pro-\njects, his ooubts and prejudices against the Elders of the Clans,\nprevented their successful conclusion. In the first instance, the co-\noperation and help of the Elders of the clans, might not have\nappeared to him as significant, but in the last analysis, such doubts","chars":2085,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00022.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/22","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/22","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."}}