{"book":"adl1197","page":44,"text":"—31—\nremoved a man, who was the protector of them, and their system; thus precipitated such a upheavals in the territory. The loss of which is hard to estimate.\n\nSirdar Paynda Khan had twenty one sons; and they had been called by the European histonians as the Barakzai Brothers. The man who towered above them all in regards to great power of persuati-on, sagacity in matters of the state, in deaeifying tactics, in work-ing the matters of the realm according to the spirit of the age and the Afghan spirit; thus the English writers had given him (Fateh Khan) the title of King Maker. This appallation fitted this great Afghan Sirdar to a fault.\n\nHis father vas assassinated in the year (1214.A.H.) at Kanda-har on account of the mistakes of Shah Zaman and the intrigues of the courtiers. This incident, quite naturally had moved him as it moved his brothers to anger and revenge, and thus much that had happened after that period of hisory is compleioned by that sad tragedy; indeed, those sentiments lasted for and seventy five years. The first manifestation of this when the then king Zaman Shah was opposed by Fateh Khan-the son of the assassinated Sirdar Paynda Khan. He (Fateh Khan) joined issues with another rival of the th-rone with him; namely Shah Mahmud; thus it would be seen that the Afghan kingdom was first taken from Zaman Shah, and then from Shahshuja; so that Shah Mahmud ascended the throne for the second time; and that Fateh Khan was first installed as The best Friend of the king (Shah Mahmud) and then raised to the high dignity of the Great Minister.\n\nAlthought that after the assassinaton of Sirdar Paynda Khan fierce animosity arose between the two most important Houses those of the Saduzais and the Barakzais, co-opertion between these two Houses of Nobles did not entirely disappear; for it would be seen that when he was opposing Shahshuja, he was helping the other Sadu Zai namely Shah Mahmud. But unfortunately, Shah Mahmud did not fully realise the value of the help of his devoted co-opeator in Fateh Khan, or correctly appraise the help that he was giving to the benefit of the peotle. Fateh Khan wan all the time in search of finding a right person to rule;uch as","chars":2201,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00044.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/44","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/44","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."}}