{"book":"adl1197","page":66,"text":"— 53 —\nHisar and Shah Shaheed; but the intercession of Nawab Jabar khan\nand Nawab Mohammed Zaman khan the two were reconciled. The\nplane evolved by Shair Dil khan will be discussed in a different\narticle.\n\nSirdar Habibullah Khan son of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan,\nas we have said already, was not a man of any considerable perso\nnality; except that he had inherited a good deal of wealth from his\nfather. Not only was money bequethed to Sirdar Habibullah Khan\nby his father but also, the Sirdarship and leadership of Kabul had\nalso been imparted to him. But this was not really granted to him\nby the people who mattered. Sirdar Habibullah Khan, therefore,\ndesired to have that leadership by spending money and through the\ninfluence of his friends But this wealth of his attracted the atten\ntions of his uncles of Peshawar and of Kandahar. Their coming to\nKabul however, deprived him not only of his wealth but also all\nsemblence of any leadership of Kabul that he had sought.\n\nTHE COMING OF SHIR DIL KHAN TO KABUL.\n\nWhen Sirdar Shair Dil Khan arrived in Kabul Sirdar Yar\nMohammed Khan and Sirdar Sultan Mohammed Khan the half-wit\nSirdar Habibullah Khan against Sirdar Shair Dil Khan. His path\nwas barred at Char Dahi; but Sirdar Shair Dil Khan skirted by\nway of Killah Fazil Baig, Afshar Nanuk Chi and Chal Tan and\nreached Kabul. Beating the resistence of his adverseries he moved\nto the region of the fur merchants, which lay towards the east of the\nbridge of Mahmud Khan, where he made his military headquarters\nThence advancing by way of the Hisar arrived at Killa Housh Mund;\nand moving still to the south in a semi-circle surrounded the citedal\nof Bala Hisar; and at last by way of Darwazai Khoni near the\nGateway of Jobba entered Bala Hisar. He took the enterior by force\nof arms; and took Habibullal Khan a prisoner.","chars":1822,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00066.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/66","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/66","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."}}