{"book":"adl1197","page":58,"text":"45\n\nMahmud Saduzai, and revenge of the clans started. At that time\nSirdar Azeem Khan leaving his brother, one named Jabbar Khan, at\nKashmire and journeyed by way of Peshawar to Kabul. The result\nof this internecine was the Sikhs took Kashmire. The date being\n1235. A. H. or 1819. A. D.\n\nDuring this period of history when the princes of Saduzai,\nmade apparent their unfitness due to their loose-ling and by their\nextravagants, the Barkzai Brothers were in search of a real leader\nfor the rulership of the kingdom. There was a conflict between\nSirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed khan.\nThe scene of this struggle, too, was in Kabul. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem\nKhan, who had a precedence, both in regards to age and wealth amo-\nngst all his brothers, but Sirdar operated with greater wisdom and\nforesight. For a time both of these brothers struggled against each\nother in the name of their king-protegee Ayub Shah and Sultan\nAli Shah. This tussel moved around Kabul, Ghazni, Kohistan and\nKohat and Sindh. Ranjit Singh, as was but natural took advantage\nof these animosities and started to inroad Peshawar ( 1238. A. H.\n1822. A. D. ). Sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan, who was the governor\nof Peshawar on behalf of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan sought help\nfrom that Sirdar from Kabul. But unfortunately, limitless wealth had\neffected the Sirdar in Kabul and had his followers deserted at the\nfort of Machina, where the Sikhs had nearly overpowered them, and\nthe promise of governorship of Peshawar to Yar Mohamed Khan on\nthe part of Ranjit Singh on the other, had weekend the Afghan\nresistence. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan turned his face from Pesha-\nwar; and at a point between Jalalabad and Kabul was taken ill by\ndysentry, and died at the age of 38 at Kotal Lata Band. His body\nwas brought to Kabul, which was enturned at the grave yard of\nAshiqan Arafan, from the following couplet his date of death could\nbe made out :\n\n\"If they ask the year of his death, say :\nIn the Heaven he found a Place\".","chars":1991,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00058.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/58","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/58","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."}}