{"book":"adl1197","page":89,"text":"- 76 -\nthe Barakzai Brotheas regarding the apportioning of Afghanistan.\nA group of them took over the regions of Peshawar and Kand-\nahar; and Doust Mohamed Khan was given Kohistan to administer.\nIt is, also the time, when Sirdar Shair Dil Khan taking the lar-\ngest share of the late Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan's fortune\nfrom his son Habibullah Khan, left for Kandahar. Ataullah Khan,\nthe governor of Peshawar taken ill, and sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan\ndied; and Sirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan was made the governor of\nKabul on his behalf. The last tussel between Sirdar Doust Mohamed\nKhan and Sirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan, the first being the gov-\nernor of Kohistan and the last named the Governor of Kabul,\nbegan in the year 1243. A. H. ( 1827. A. D. ) Sirdar Sultan Moh-\named Khan was surrounded at Bala Hisar. A pact was signed by\nwhich Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan was to receive one lakhs of\nrupees annually from the Kabul revenue; and Sultan Mohamed\nKhan left the citadel from one gate, and Sirdar Doust Mohamed\nentered it by another. Doust Mohamed Khan, in addition, took\nover the rulership of Kabul for himself.\n\nIf we were to study closely the conditions of the time and\nthe activities of the Barakzai Brothers in Kandahar and Peshawar,\nwe would note that fate also played a favourable part for Doust\nMohamed Khan; in this way that when Sirdar Shair Dil Khan\ntook Kabul, he sent his uncle one named Khudai Nazar Khan with\nGhayas Khan Alkozi, that they should get all that money which\nthe documents revealed that Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan had\nupon the people. These two messengers used cruel methods to\nmethods to exhort the money so that the people of Kabul having\nbeen distracted, approached Sirdar Shair Dil Khan, who in place of\nroviding a re-dress upbraided them; and this occasioned a conflict\nbetween the Kabulis and the Sirdar. Accordig to his plans, ther\nefore, Sirar Shair Dil Khan, appointed Doust Mohamed Khan as\nthe governo of Kohistan; placed Sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan at\nthe head of the affairs at Kabul and he himself left for Kandahar.\n\nWhen Sirdar Dil Khan left for Kandhar, the people of Kabul\nfelt very relieved; and as they had been annoyed wih him, his\nrepresentaives also ahared in that unpopularity: Sirdar Dust Mohamed","chars":2235,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00089.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/89","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/89","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."}}