{"book":"adl1197","page":56,"text":"- 43 -\n\nght to Kandahar and along with Prince Kamran to proceed towa-\nrds Peshawar and to capture that city. Also, he was commanded\nto collect the revenues of Dera Jat areas. This was to be done\nby his brothers Jabbar Khan and his Scribe one named Mirza\nAli Khan. But from that time could be seen that was very anx-\nious to collect funds for himself.\n\nIn as much as Shah Mahmud had deputed practically\nall the affairs of the state into the hands of his Vazir Fateh\nKhan, the Vazir-Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan was apppointed\nas the governor of Peshawar. Peshawar of that time was considerd\nas one of the fine citiy of the Saduzai kingdom. It was regarded\nwith certain amount of consideration: because if on one side\nAttaullah Khan, as the governor impelled by his progressive\nimportance as the Governor, wanted to anex the city of Peshawar into\nhis jurisdiction: whilst on the other, the king without a throne\nnamely Shahshuja, who then lived at Lahore was always of\nthought to secure Peshawar. In all these plans of Shahshuja,\nAttaullah helped Shahshuja. This fact gave that city a unique\nposition as the focal point of attention both to the central Saduzai\nking at Kabul, and Shahshuja for his personal considerations.\n\nIn the first struggle the Bamyazais like Ghulam Mohamed\nKhan, the brother of Attaullah Khan and Yahya Khan, helped\nthe Shah without the throne-Shehsuja-in fact they did manage to\ndetach Peshawar from the government of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem\nKhan. For a period of four months was in the hands of Shah-\nshuja, and Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan had to beat a retreat to\nKabul. For the second time, however,taking a much larger force,\nSirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan moved against the Shahshuja-held\nPeshawar. Despite the fact that his brother (Azeem Khan) was\nkilled in the engagement, yet he was successful in winning the\ncity of Peshawar and its area for his master Shah Mahmud.\nLater on the Bamyazais sent re-enforcements to help Shahshuja\nwith the result that Sirdar Azeem Khan was defeated once again;\nand taking a route by way of Bungas and Kohat reached Kabul.\nThe city of Peshawar in name remained with Shahshuja, but in\nreality the goveronrs of the place were Bamyazai nobles, namely","chars":2196,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00056.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/56","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/56","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."}}