{"book":"adl1197","page":77,"text":"-64-\nthey should really combine in their efforts. This is a time, too, when\nAhmed Khan the head of the Ishaq Zais, induce Kuhin Dil Khan\nto take the region of Lash, then Shair Dil Khan son of Mihr Dil\nKhan started from Kandahar to that direction ; just in time Kuhin\nDil Khan's son Sirdar Mohamed Saddiq Khan occupied the region of\nChughansour. Yar Mohamed Khan was rather frightened about this,\ntherefore, he, tooo, tok notice of the region of Lash and removed\nAhmed Khan form that locality; and send Sirdar Mohamed Saddiq\nKhan back to Kandahar with due honour and with much favour; ma-\nking his son Sirdar Said Mohamed Khan as the governor of Lash.\nHe himself returned to Herat. In the way to Herat, he fell ill\nsuffering with fever and died in 1267, A. H. He was burried near\nthe grave of Jami.\n\nDuring his rule in Herat Yar Mohamed Khan-twelve years\nwith his might reduced all the lesser nobles to subjugation. He\ngave peace to practically all the territories under his jurisdiction.\nHe also paid a great deal of attention to agriculture and even\nto the mines of his territory. He repaired all those buildings which\nhad suffered during fighting in and around Herat. Those who\nhad died as a result of the war with the foreigners were remem-\nbered by him, for their dependents received grants of lands in such\nregions as Killa Noa and in areas around. As compared to the\nSaduzai princes, he ruled a larger territory and most certainly\nmuch more effeciently.\n\nTOWARDS THE FRONTIER DELINEATION.\nEIGHTEENTH ARTICLE\nThe English atlast on their road of imperialist expansion\nreached upto the banks of the Indus in the middle of the 19th.\ncentury of Christian Era. But from the time that they arrived at\nthat locality, they were subjected to great difficulty, for there they\nwere confronted with the problem of delineating the frontiers. The\ndifficulty was that during a whole century their political thinkers\nand their military officers through various writings and in virtue\nof multiferous documents which they had sighned, they had com-\nmitted themselves to quite a number of baffling situations. They\nknew that the problems of the frontiers between them and the","chars":2161,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00077.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/77","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/77","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."}}