{"book":"adl1197","page":96,"text":"-83-\n\nand in Kandahar, Sirdar Pur Dil Khan and Sirdar Shair Dil Khan\nhad their headqurtars. These two wante to terminate the rule of\nthe Saduzis at Herat; but they were not successful.\n\nAs the generl conditions of the country was of that character\nat the time, and we had said above that Sirdar Hubibullah Khan\nas the son and heir of the late Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan; and\nAyub Shah as the “king”, each at his place considered themselves\nas a Minister of the Realm and the king of the country centered at\nKabul. But each was struggling against the other. Quite naturrlly\nall the Sirdars of Kandahar were awaiting the turn of events; for\nall thought some thing must break; till Pur Dil Khan, either with\nhe connivance or otherwise of Sirdar Habibullah Khan, started for\nKabul; with the result that Ayub Shah was imprisoned and his son\nwas killed; which brought the Saduzai rule in Kabul to a close;\nand Sirdar Habibullah Khan beacame the ruler of Kabul without a\nrival-atleast without a rival at the time of the crime of Pur Dil\nKhan. But affairs could not be decided finally in this way; for at\na time, when Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Peshawar groups had no-\nthing in common with each other; the whole scene of activity pro-\nduced a fuedal contests all over the country; for over half a century.\nPur Dil Khan took a share of affairs at Kabul left for Kandahar\nand the moneyed Habibullah Khan was left in peace long, till Sirdar\nDoust Mohamed Khan, finding that his rival was not upto his sta-\nture, raise the standard of revolt against Habibullah Khan; and\nuncle and nephew now were at logger heads wifh each other. The\nstruggle was now open and voilent, and although with the intercession\nof such men as Nawab Jabbar Khan and Nayab Aminullah Khan\nLogari, Doust Mohamed Khan's case was in the farourable scale of\nbalance; and when it appeared that he would succeed, Habibullah\nKhan and his brother Mohamed Akram Khan appealed to their other\nuncle, Shair Dil Khan to assist them; upon which Sirdar Shair Dil\nKhan reached Kabul. Ita ppeared in the first instance that Shair Dil\nKhan had his own plans; and through his machination, he wanted\nto destroy the plans of both of the contestents-Doust Mohamed Khan\nand Habibullah Khan-an to secure Kabul for himself. At a time when\nconditions all over the country were indefinte, and each noble wa-","chars":2340,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00096.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/96","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/96","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."}}