{"book":"adl1197","page":37,"text":"— 24 —\nnot held by them though their own wishes or their own desires,\nwith the slightest adverse current of affairs, they could be wafted\nfrom their places and had been replaced by others.\n\nThe particulars of th life of prince Qaisar, or beter still\nthose facts of his life that had impressed tkemselves on the pages\nof history, are of a nature of drama; or a ball: the movememnts\nof which ought to be viewed in light. Such facts of his life cannot\nrepose un-noticed in the chronicles of this country's events. In all\nthe years of his youth the governorship or rulership of Kabul,\nHerat and especially the viceroyalty of Kandahar was son igned\nto him; but during the time of his father, the rivals of the throne\ndid not leave him in peace. During the rule of his uncle, nobles\nlike Vazir Fateh Khan, and Mukhtar-u-Doullah Shair Mohamed\nKhan incited him to a revolt. They, of course, dangled him about\nthis side or that according to their own plans or schmes. The\nfirst posihon of responsibilty which was entrusted to him was the\ngovernorsip of Kanhahar; in which he was installed when yet a\nmere child. When Zaman Shan occupied the throne of his father\nTimour Shah he was immediately confronted with the opposition\nof his brother Humayun. It was then that Zaman Shah placed\nhis young son, Qaisar as the governor of Kandahar when the\nprince was hardly seven of age. Abdullah Khan Noorzai was put\nas the guardian of the boy prince. Meantime Zaman Shah trevelled\nupto Herat, then returning to Kabul marched on to Peshawar; in\norder to arrrange matters in the eastern province of his realm.\nFrom Peshawar he wanted to study the future plans of his cam-\npaign of India. Findin Zaman Shah absent from the country; Humyun\nemerging from his hiding place in Bluchistan converged upon\nKandahar with Bluchi co-operators. The battle that took place\nnear the city of Kandahar between the young prince, the nephew\nand his uncle Humayun is both dramatic and sad. It is related\nthat the small prince was wounded and his cousin, Ahmed the\nyoung son of Humayun, was in tears about the woundng of the\nyoung Qaisar; but the ontesting Humayun became angry; and put\nthe \"infant\" prince (Qaisar) into prison. It is, of course, true\nthat this young boy prince had hardly any say in the matter of","chars":2271,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00037.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/37","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/37","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."}}