{"book":"adl1197","page":69,"text":"- 56-\nvance of Fateh Ali Khan Kachar attacks were launched against\nHerat. In fact these attacks were also moved down to Farah. The in-\nhabitants of Farah, however, were now attcahd to the Sirdars of\nKandahar, Sirdar Shair Dil Khan moved to Farah to repel the aggre-\nssors. At the time Shah Mahmud was indulging himself, whether\nthrough his own desire, or because he was compelled to remain id-\nle, and was at Bagh Shah. Kamran had deputed affairs of the state\nto Husain Khan his uncle Mustafa Khan Zori; and placed his son\nto watch as to how these two discharged their duties. He himself,\n(Kamran) gave his time to the reduction of the city of Farah. These\ntwo Sirdar, who had penetration amongst the people, had their own\ndesigns. From the very beginning they allied themselves and plotted\nagainst Kamran. The son of Kamran was set on a wrong path by the-\nse two intriguers, by inciting him to claim a kingship. Later on one\nof them released Haji Firozuddin, and set him on the throne; and\nthe other approached Shah Mahmud and \"released\" him, Later on\nMustafa Khan Zouri terminated 18 days reign of Haji Firozuddin and\ninduced Kamran to return to Herat.\n\nIn the south, although Shair Dil Khan had beseiged the Killa\nLash and Wajueen: but further opportunity of an advance did not\ncome to his hands: thus Kamran was undecided whether to return\nto Herat or not. As Mustafa Khan had not acquired a complete mas-\ntery over things in Herat, the people were not very pleased with\nhim; thus Syed Mir Saddiq Khan it was who invited Kamran to\nHerat. In the darkness of night, the prince Kamran's return was\nmanipulated. For a whole month, a struggle continued between Kam-\nran and Mustafa Khan with in the precints of the town;and in the\nKilla Ikhtiaruddin. Till at last Mustafa Khan surrundured and Kamran\ntor the second time took possession of the city of Herat ( 1823.A.D.)\n1244. A. H. In the year 1829. A.D. ( 1245. A. H.) after the death of his\nfather-Shah Mahmud-he proclaimed himself as king.\n\nDuring nine of ten years ( 1810. A. D.-1829. A. D.) when Shah\nMahmud as king and his son Kamran as the real administrator in\nHerat, when they were in opposite camps, and was harrassed by the\nattacks of the Kachars, did not find their places as the bed of\nroses. Shah Mahmud died under mysterious circumstances; for accor-","chars":2314,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00069.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/69","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/69","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."}}