{"book":"adl1197","page":29,"text":"-18-\n\nHaji Ali disguised the king and led him out of the prison and\ntook him to the Killa of Vazir; after which Nawab Zaman Khan\nmanaged to get him smuggled to the Punjab.\n\nThere is no doubt that the terminatin of the Saduzai dynasty\nrepared the way for a Barakzai Brothers rule; and a chance cane when\nthe Barakzais were abletosecure the throne of the country. Althouegh\nthis transference of sovereignty could have taken place earlier; but Pur\nDil Khan rather than act in the general interest of his kinsmen, and\navailing himself of the opportunny of placing his family upon the\ntrone; merely contended himself getting his share from the vast\nshare of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, and let go the rest of\nthe matter to work out as best as it could. Pur Dil Khan appointed\nSirdar Habibullah Khan as the ruler of Kabul in place of Ayub\nShah; so that in place of establishng a solid basis for rulership,\ngave rise to a fuedal controversy; so that during those fateful years\nof second quarter of the 19th. Century, when the country needed\nstrength through unit, our Sirdars were more interested in struggle\nfor power and money at Bala Hisar than the more immediate\nneeds of the country.\n\n* * *\n\nTHE PLAN & THE PURPOSE OF SHAIR DIL KHAN.\n\nARTICLE TTENITY SECOND\n\nAfter the collaps of the Saduzais, till the rulership of the\nMohamedzais; all the Barakzai Sirdars endeavoured to garnish\ntheir own interests and purpose. Their numbers and iufluence\ngradually produced important places for them at the court. But\nas the hand of the brother was raised against his brother, and\nhad disintegrated man from man; even at the hight of power,\ntheir internecine conflicts rendered their power as a negative force,\nwhich produced nothing better than a fuedal conflict; from which\nthe of reigners benefitted.\n\n* * *\n\nThe sons of Sirdar Payunda Khan, who in history are as a\nrule termed as Barakzai Brothers, after the assassination of their","chars":1919,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00029.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/29","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/29","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."}}