{"book":"adl1197","page":45,"text":"- 32 -\nthe prince Kamran or Qaisar; and it was his choice which brought\nShah Mahmud to the throne after the defeat of Shahshuja. Fateh\nKhan and all his brothers came forward to assist the new ruler-\nShah Mahmud with all their might and prestige, Fatheh Khan\n(apart from the two real brothers; Shahshuja and Zaman Shah)\nhad an intimate relationship with the government of the country.\nHe it was, who never tolerated that those who lay at far and\nwide distances of the country, should interfere in the management\nof the land and raise a standrd of revolt against the\nestablished rule of the king at Kabul. He, it was, who removed\nAtaullah Khan Bamizai from the post of govership of Kashmire; and\ndisensed with the services of Haji FirouzulDin from his appoint-\nment of Herat Governorate. His attitude in removing these two\npersons, possibly as reactionary, was not only to establish the\nauthority of the Central Government at Kabul; but also he thought\nthat in these two rather important outposts of the kingdom very\nimportant and capable persons ought to be sent, because the Sikhs\non the one side and the Persians on the other were factors, which\nhad to dealt with with considerablee delicacy and strength at one and\nthe same time. In the matter of Kashmire,for instance, when battles took-\nplace bitween the forces of Ranjit Singh and the Afghans,he (Fateh Khan)\nwas present and in other battles against the Persias at Meshad-with Hasan\nAli Mirza-his interest in both of these sections of war is significant\nfactor to attest to the importance which he attached to these two\ncorners of the Afghan dominions. It was thus, that the rule of\nShah Mahmud had been consolided as possessing a central strenght\nat Kabul. Unfortunately, as such selfless workers, as a rule develop\na group of rivals and jealous adverseries; these who belonged\nto the king's family themselves begin to harbour suspicions\nagainst Fateh Khan; despite the fact that these men received the\ntitle of kingship through no other than Fateh Khan's endea-\nvours. It was Kamran, the son of the King, who was at the time\na governor of Kandahar, that wrote to his father at Kabul in 1231.\nA. H. from Herat as followed The emeny was once an ant. which\ndeveloped into a serpent; remove thou that ant which had become\nthe serpent: Do not give further chance through thy idlleness and\ndisregard to that serpent; for that snake might yet become a","chars":2401,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00045.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/45","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/45","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."}}