{"book":"adl1197","page":78,"text":"- 65 -\nAfghans had not been solved. As a result the reaction had been\nthe question of Pushtunistan come into being, so that till that region\nof the Pushtuns is not made indpendent, there could not be a\nPermanent peace in that phart of Asia.\n\nAs a result of the records of history which had been rev-\nealed; and some of which have also been appearing in the publi-\ncations both in our own and those of the English. When the\nEnglish occupied the Indus Valley in the year 1843. A. D. and\nplaced the Punjab unddr their rule, had aways in the quest of\nmaking a boundry line their territory and those of the western\nneighbours.\n\nIn other words, the imperialist designs of the English during\ntheir progress for half a century had enabled them to overpower\nthe fertile regions of India from the Ganges to the basin of\nthe Indus river. When that was accomplished they were solicitous\nto find a lind of demarkation of a permanet value; so that the\ntasty morsal of India should be eaten away from the interference\nof rivals; so that no one should meddle in their rule of the\nfetile plains and extensive regions of which then they were the\nmasters. It was this that impelled the military and political officers\nof rhe Britsh empire to arrive at a decision in regards to a line\nof frontier.\n\nAs the readers are aware that the discovery and the evolution\nof a line of demarkation was a problem of great intricacy; the\ncnnsiderations which promted the several steps of the British in\nthis regard had perforce due to the ever changing conditons of\ntime and circumstances, had to be altered and changed frequently.\n\nThe principles that guided the British in relation to this\nmaking of a fronier line of strength and permanancy, were two\nfangled. One school was the school of Forward Policy and the\nother was the Limited Frontier of Close Frontier Policy. Those\nBritish officers who had served in Sindh were favourable to a","chars":1905,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00078.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/78","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/78","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."}}