{"book":"adl1197","page":68,"text":"—55—\nsurvive and to have their records of misdeeds condoned. The fact\nwas that the lust of personal power and interest that this king and\nhis son had, they did not pay the slightest attention to any and all\nprotest that had been made in connection of their appalling activities.\n\nShah Mahmud considered that all his misfortunes had been\ninflicted upon him due to the activities of his son Kamran, wanted\nto have all power into his hands; but Kamran, who had tasted to\nluxuries of being an heir to the throne of his father had another\nidea: thus Shah Mahmud fearing that his son might imprison him,\nin the year 1235.A.H. left the city of Herat in fear of his life.\nIn the years of 1820.A.D. and 1821.A.D, the son and the father\nhad to measure swords in the neighbourhood of Herat. The king\nsought help from the people of Bad-Ghaiz, Ghurjistan and Emaq;\nand the prince sought assistence from the officers of the Kachars\nof Persia and Meshed. Till atlast the nobles terminated this ridiculous\nbattle between father and son; and persuaded the king to retain\nthe title and prestige of royalty; and that all administration was to\nbe handed over to his son, Kamran. The position, thus was this that\nwhereas the entire country of Afghanistan was in the hands of\nthe Barakzai Brothers, and Sikhs were inroading from the eastern\nregions; and they were \"wretling\" against these Sikhs; the Saduzai\nprinces found an opportunity to continue to rule in the north-west\nof the country. The trouble which was going on between the father\nand the son in Herat area amongst the Saduzais, was contemporary\nof the time when the Anglo-Russian imperial penetration and rivalry\nhad reached its higt in degards to Central Asia. The Kachars took\nadvantage of this weekness frequently attacked Herat.\n\nThe first fact which interfered with the position of Shah Mha-\nmud and Kamran from Western Asyab was the factor of the attack\nof Firozuddin in the year 1822. A.D. Haji Firozuddin, who as the\nbrother of Shah Mahmud for sixteen years had acted as an in-\ndependent governor in Herat-from 1800. A.D. to 1816. A.D,-and af-\nter the collaps of Kandahar when Kandahar had been taken by Pur\nDil Khan' had gone to Meshad, with the help and co-operation of\nKhali Khan Tayamni attack Herat; but his helper was killed and he\nhimself was taken prisoner. In the year 1823. A.D. with the conni-","chars":2351,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00068.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/68","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/68","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."}}