{"book":"adl1197","page":72,"text":"— 59 —\n\nwanted to remove him through whatever pretext that was possible.\nThe minister on his turn, seeing his growing power wanted to do\naway with the king. In the year 1225. A. H. when Shahshuja was\nruling at Kabul, Kamran entered Killa Ikhtiaruddin and launched an\nattack against his own powerful minister. The result was not favo-\nurable to the king, so that Kamran was placed under surveillance\nin the region of Kohistan. There he was assassinated by the order\nof minister in the year 1842. A. D. 1256. A. H.\n\n* * *\n\nYAR MOHAMED KHAN ALKOZAI.\nSEVENTEENTH ARTICLE\n(The Minister, The Minister of The Realm of The Herat Kings.)\nYar Mohamed Khan, whose account is being given in this\narticle was one of the great man and man of great power in Af-\nghanistan. He held the position of a Minister of the Realm during\nthe reign of King Kamran, he, on account of the power which he\nhad gathered into his hands, he reached to the great position\nof a ruler at Herat, where his life ended. His territory extened\nbeyond Herat to such areas as Bulk and Chakhansour. Yar Moha-\nmed Khan seeing that the city of herat was attracting the interests\nof strangers, like the English, was opposed to the English and was\ninclined towards the Persians towards the end of his time. his Policy\nwas to protect himself from external & internal intrusion; and it is to\nbe accepted that he managed to do this.\n\nIn the year 1829. A. D. (1240. A. H.) when Shah Mahmud,\nfhe Saduzi king of Herat died under mysterious circumstances;\nand his son Kamran occopied the throne-who in fact had\nassumed the power of government during the life time of his\nfather-installed one named Ata Mohamed Alkozi was his minister.\nA year after that, Ata Mohamed Alkozi died and King Kamran\nwas compelled to appoint another man in his place. Accordinog to\ntraditon of the time, the place of a minister of heriditory, thus\nAta Mohamed Khan's place was to be taken by his son, named\nSirdar Din Mohamed Khan. The courtiers, however, opposed that\nappointment; thus Din Mohamed Khan agreed to step down in\nfavour of his cousin one named Yar Mohamed Khan Alkozai.","chars":2105,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00072.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/72","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/72","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."}}