{"book":"adl1197","page":23,"text":"and untrust affected the solidarity of his kingdom, produced\nfundamental weaknesses; which sowed the seeds of conflict into the\nsoil of the kingmdom. The result being that at last, the Sadu Zai\ndynasty lost the throne; and great personages and importance\ndeserted the.\n\nIn the third aricle of this period of history, we had mentioned\nthat prior to the death of King Timour Shah, the Elders of the\nclans-impelled notably by such towering personalities as Sirdar\nPayunda Khan-who were sincere lovers of the power and prosperity\nof their country; it was resolved to set on the throne Zaman Shah,\nwho possessed the qualities of rulership as compared to the other\ntwentyone sons of Timour Shah. Inspite of it all, Zaman Shah was\nnot able to rule in peace. His brothers, like Humayun and Mahmud\nmade all possible efforts to secure the throne. In any case, the per-\niod of rule of Zaman Shah, as the rule of the Third Sadu Zai king,\nhad a historical importance. The real imprtance of it is constituted\nby the Afghan king's battles against the foreigners. The time was,\nwhen the foreigners from the west countries especially from France,\nEngland and Russia were out to introduce their influence in India,\nTheir approximation to the Indian continent, the Persian Gulf, str-\nted a disturbance in the east, such as in Persia, Mesopotamia and\nin the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan: so that matters of\nconflict extended their tentacles in all directions. Zaman Shah was\nto a certain degree aware of these movements, and desired to take\nadvantage of the circumstances fo the benefit of his own country,\nso that he wished that in the interior of the country fuedal difficul-\nties may be removed; and as an external policy he could push his\nefforts to the extent of the conquests of his grandsire, Ahmed Shah\nDurrani in India.\n\nThere is no doubt that of the two above mentioned problems,\nthe first one: namely the quilling of the internal discord was the\nmore important, But although 'the intenal peace was the more desi-\nrblae in equal measure it was riddled with difficulties.","chars":2069,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00023.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/23","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/23","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."}}