{"book":"adl1197","page":91,"text":"-78-\n\nIt in the Thirteenth article, under the title TWO KINGS IN\nONE PALACE we had given details, as to how two kings, one put\nup by Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan - one named Ayub Shah - and\nthe other placed at the head of the government as a pupper king\nby Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan - Sultan Ali Shah, lived not only\nin one realm, in one city but shared the same palace.\n\nThere can be little doubt that this anomolous position was\ncreated through the personal interests of two men namely Sirdar\nMohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan ; for each\nof these had placed two little known princes upon the throne, only\nto rule in their name themselves. These schemes were projected for\ngaining personal power and personal satisfaction of the two above\nmentioned ; and inwardly they, of course, were thirsty for each ot-\nhers blood. The two Sirdars worked at their respective designs, and\neach “king” in his turn did everything in his path. Sirdar Doust\nMohamed Khan, howevere, began to work this plan ; and although\nhe tried hard to persuade his protege to the act, Sultan Ali Shah\ndid not take his mentor's advice and commit an actual act of assas-\nsination against his rival Ayub Shah. In point of fact, he actually took\noffence at the suggestion of his Vazir-Doust Mohamed Khan-on that\nscore. As opposed to this, the schemes of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem\nKhan, worked as he desired, for he so made it known that, if Ayub\nShah manage to do away with his rival “king”, Sirdar Mohamed\nAzeem Khan, too, on his part do all that he could do, to make short\nwork of his rival brother, Doust Mohamed Khan. It so happened,\ntherefore, that prince Ismail, the son of Ayub Shah managed to kill\nthe rival “king” of his father. But having done that foul deed, Ayub\nShah now held Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan upto his bargain, and\nasked him to kill his brother Doust Mohamed Khan; but the later\nrefused to do so. Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, however, did not\ndesist from opposing Doust Mohamed Khan in a fair fight, as it\nwere. A series of struggles, therefore, rose between Sirdar Mohamed\nAzeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan at such diverse pla-\nces as Ghazni, Astalif, Shikar Pour and at Peshawar. These struggles\ntook on such proportions that the Barakzai Brothers now thought of\napportioning the kingdom among themselves. The foreigners, especi-\nally the Sikhs, made a great harvest out of this discord of the","chars":2394,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00091.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/91","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/91","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."}}