{"book":"adl1197","page":53,"text":"- 40 -\nQaiser, and which resulted in a battle between Shahsuja's forces\nand those mastered by the youn prince and Shair Mohamed\nKhan; in which Shair Mohamed and some of his followers of\nBamiyazai were killed. This incident opend two paths before\nthe son of the slain Vazir Shair Mohamed at Kashmire: either\nto declare himself as independent ruler at Kashmire or to give\na better account of his duties as the loyal subject of his master-\nShahshuja.\nThe continunance of hostilities between Shahshuja and Shah\nMahmud and his allies like Vazir Fateh Khan gave a further chance\nto Attaullah Khan to strength his position the more in Kashmire.\nCircumstances so contrived the situation that after the fall of\nShahshuja-that is in the first occasion-Attaulah continued to be\nat Kashmire. When the second cycle of rule of Shah Mahmud\nopened with the help of Vazir Fateh Khan consolidated the position of\nShah Mahmud so that both Sindh and Dera Jat camewithin the orbit\nof the Saduzai rule. Affairs of realm, more particularly the two\nfrontier provinces of Herat and Kashmire came within the personal\nattention of Vazir Fateh Khan. In the first province at the head of\naffairs was Haji Firouz Khan and in Kashmire was Attaullah Khan\nas governor.\nAttaullah had by now assumed tremendous power in Kashmire,\nand did not present himself at the central administration at Kabul.\nNor was it all, but he thought of taking over the regions of Peshawar\nand amalgamating it with that over which he had been ruling so\nlong. In order to make that dream a reality, he despatched his two\nbrothers, namely Samandar Khan and Jahandad Khan to Peshawar\nand by an odd chance, managed to capture Shahshuja himself; and\nsent him to Kashmire. In this manner, it so happened that Attaullah\nKhan had become so powerful that when two kings-like Shahshuja\nand Shah Mahmud-were strugling for power and throne of Afgha-\nnistan; and the two great Houses of Nobles-like the Barakzais and\nthe Sadu Zais-were also wabbling in the sea of battle of rivals; he\nwas regarded as the third force in the strugle as the governor of\nKashmire. These affairs took such a grave turn that Vazir Fateh\nKhan who was very sensitive in regards to the loyalty of the outl-","chars":2211,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00053.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/53","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/53","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."}}