{"book":"adl1197","page":60,"text":"-47-\n\ndisturbed on account of blinding of Vazir Fateh Khan and his\nlate asassination, (1818 A. D. -1924. A. D.). Inorder to take revenge\nthe brothers of the dead wazir Fateh Khan collected at a fort\nin a village of Hindiki and a \"council of war\" took place. At that\ntime, too, Purdil Khan and his brothers had taken Kandahar from\nGul Mohamed Khan Populzai, who was appointed by Shah Mahmud:\nthe last named king, when in flight was not able to take reufge\neven at Kandahar. He, therefore, skirting by way of Diraoot, Farah\ntook the road to Herat. This was time, too, when the fugitive\nSaduzai king had still an influence at Herat. Shahshuja was then\nat Ludhiana as a mere wonderer and in trorbile. The larger part\nof the country from Nad Ali in Hamoun Seistan to Kashmire and\nSind was in possesssion of the Barakzai Brothers.\n\nWhen Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan moved towards Peshawar\nand to Kabul at the command of his brother Sirdar Azeem Khan,\nas the result inorder to seek a revenge of the atrocities committed\nby Shah Mahmud's men, he installed the prince Ayub son of Ti-\nmour as the king at Peshawr. This done, he moved on to Kabul.\nIn the meantime, Shahshuja, through the invitation of Mohamed\nAzeem Khan arrived at Peshawar. Quite naturally he had to rem-\nove Shah Ayub from his pedestal. Mohamad Azeem Khan moved\ndown to Peshawar but his Pact with Shah Shuja did not take shape.\nThe prince Ayub was taken into his favour.\n\nWhen Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan took Kabul from Jahangir\nthe son of Kamran, immediately he placed another prince of Sa-\nduzai one named Sultan Ali son fo Timour Shah on the throne\nof Kabul. He himself acted as his Vazir. This act of the kings","chars":1668,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00060.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/60","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/60","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."}}