{"book":"adl1197","page":88,"text":"-75-\ndge any body's acendence upon himself. During their short stay\nat Kabul, these two Sirdar busied themselves in ripening their resp-\nective scemes; and even sought each other's life blood. Nawab Samad\nKhan, however, tried to recile them; till Shahshuja rose as\nanother claiment in Sindh at Shikarpour; which assisted in diver-\nting their attention to him. All the Barakzai Brotheres, whether at\nKubl or at Kandahar now banded themselvve to oppose him.\n\nBut such an alliance was short lived, for again at Kandahar,\nat Shikar Pour and Gazni the animosity of these Sirdars-as above\nmentione-made its appearance. In Kabul both influence and money\nbacked Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, therefore, the capital difficult\nplace to work in; Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan tried to raise the\npeople against Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan at such various loc-\nations as Kohistan, Gazni; and eyden endeavours were made to raise\nthe standard of revolt at Kabul. These smaller revolts, were really\na kind of a ruse inorder that Doust Mohamed Khan should get\nmoney from his brother, Mohamed Azeem Khan, and thus indirectly\nto add to his personal interets.\n\nThere is no doubt that due to this internecine warfare, the\nSikhs found themselves in a position to take advantage of the situation\nin Afghanisan; so that they brought under their rule such areas as\nDera Jat and Peshawar whilst the Afghan brothers contested in\nKabul. At last Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan forgetting the affairs\nof contest against his brothers launched out to oppose the Sikhs\nin Peshawar; and died at Lata Bund by dysentry at the age of 38\nyears; and was burried at the shrine of Mazar Ashiqan and Arfan.\n\nAt the time of the death of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan,\nthe government of Kabul was in the hands of Ayub Shah; but\nthe real work of the administration was taken over by Habibullah\nKhan, the son of Sirdar Azeem Khan, who had inherited the wea-\nlth of his father. It is at ime, too, when Sirdar Pur Dil Khan and\nShair Dil Khan of Kandahar took the road to Kabul. Although\nat a later stage thes two Sirdars clashed with Doust Mohamed Khan;\nyet in the first instance as the result of a consolidated attack,\nthe puppet king-Ayub Shah-was removed and Habibullah Khan was\nflung into the dungeon. Various schemes were set on foot amongst","chars":2280,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00088.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/88","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/88","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."}}