{"book":"adl1197","page":42,"text":"- 29 -\n\nprepering to pitch their tents and to take their bearings; it was\nthen that like a whirl-wind Shah Mahmud and his son Kamran and\nhis minster Fateh Khan and Saleh Mohamed Khan Ashaq Zai, were\nthe vanguards of Shah Mahmud's troops threw themselves upon the\nenemy; but were repulsed; and retreated. Kamran and Fateh Khan\nwho were leading the larger number of the troops convarged from\ntwo sides; and although Mohamed Khan Ashmaghri and Allah Yar\nKhan of Bajour, as the leaders of the tribes of Mahnand and Kha-\nlil were killed; the victory of Shahshuja was changed into a defeat.\nShahshuja's men were scattered, and he himself had to take refuge\nin the valleys of the Safaid Koh. Inspite of the fact that he had\npenetration and influence amongst the people of Kuream, Tirah, and\namongst the people of the Afridi and Khayber tribes; the victorious\nprince Kamran made straight for Peshawar and after settling affairs\nthere place the region under the governorship of Abdul Wahid\nKhan Barakzai. Triumphantly, he himself and his father as a reward\ninstalled him as a governor of Kanadahar.\n\nShahshuja, however, lived a long amongst the hills and valleys\nof Tirah and Khyber with his retainers, and all the time contiued to\nincrease his followers. The tribal people had a partiality towards\nhim anaccount of his previous records; thus they swelled his ranks\nin large and small numbers and increased the number of his follo-\nwers. Finding the power of his fihting men increasing, he tried\nto test his strength at Peshwar, but he could not succeed. He ther-\nefore resolved that leaving the eastern provinces, and taking a sou-\nthern route, he should negcciate the valleys of the Siah Koh and\nSulaiman mountains and skirting the regions of Dera Jat, he must\njoin the tribal people of Wazirs. Thence he thought of taking the\nrcad to Shikarpour; it was thus that Shah Shuja, taking a limited\nnumber of fighting men from the Wazirs and the Kakars arrived at\nShikarpor. From there he moved towards Sialkot towards Kojak.\nIn as much as Shah Mahmud, especialy his son Kamran, was aware\nof the desirs of Shahshuja, battles were fought at Kojak and Argh-\nistan between the followers of Shahshuja and the ruler of\nKabul. Saleh Mohamed Khan Ghilzai, who at the head of one tho-\nusand horsemen was sent out to face Shahshuja was deafeated; and","chars":2328,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00042.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/42","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/42","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."}}