{"book":"adl1197","page":63,"text":"- 50 -\nthem was a protegee of the English and was hated by the people;\nand the other was the one whom people had elected\n\nWhen the English had taken half of India; and in order to\nprotect their possession in India, they had to progress further afied\ninto central Asian territories and had taken a political refuge in the\nscare the danger of the coming of Napoleon eastwards; and by this\nruse had entered our country, \"to protect Afghanistan from the\ndanger of the French conquerer\" but in reality to protect their own\ntrading interests and their empire, and had put to flight the legally\nelected king of Afghanistan Bokharawards. Shahshuja Saduzai was\nplaced for the second time upon the throne of Afghanistan after\n23 years of his exile from the country in 1838 A. D. to 1842 A. D.\nShahshuja, however, ruled only in name, for all power of adminis-\ntration was in the hands of Macnaughton. The English troops had\noccupied the regions stretching from Kandahar and Garishk to Kilat\nGhilzai to Ghazni, Wardak, Kabul Charikar and Jalalabad. During\nthose four years of turmoil and disress if the nation Shahsuja and\nMacaughton the people did not desist from making every possible\neffort. When however cruelity and harsh treatment had reached its\napogee the leaders of the nation, collected round Abdullah Khan\nAchkzai and Aminullah Khan Logari and held a number of meetings.\nThey planed certain schemes one day in the first ten days of the\nmonth of Ramazan 1258. A. H. (November 1840. A. D.) and elected\nNawab Mohammed Zaman Khan son of Nawab Asad Khan-the grand-\nson of Sirdar Payanda Khan as their king. Afterwards on the 18th.\nRamazan (second of November) they started to act. After the murder\nof Burns the national rising increased daily against the English.\nWhen the warfare was at its highest Sirdar Mohamed Akbar Khan\narrived at Kabul so the result of national resistence a treaty was\nsigned on 16th. Zilhij 1257 A.H. First of the Month of January\n1842. A.D. in the text of which Sirdar Mohamed Zaman khan was\nstyled as the Great Nawab Nawab Mohammed Zaman khan and the\nRepresentative was stled as Aminullah khan. All the other Sirdars pen-\nned their sign atures to the treaty and it was fully sealed and signed.\n\nShahshuja and Zaman Shah were in great conflict one against the\nother during the middle of Ramazan 1257. A.H. to the middle of","chars":2342,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00063.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/63","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/63","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."}}