{"book":"adl1197","page":97,"text":"- 84 -\nnted to look to his interest: thus he desired that he should now\nget Kabul as his prize. He also wanted that for all the Sirdars,\nlanded property and shares of the proceeds of the realm could be\napportioned ; so that the affairs of the country could be united and\nexternal dangers could be faced with a hope of winning the strug-\ngle ; possibly againt the Sikhs. Shair Dil Khan, however, managed\nto imprison both Habibullah Khan and Dous Mohamed Khan\nat Bala Hisar ; but soon releasing them pronounced his award in the\nsense that Habibullah Khan was sent out to Logar ; and to Doust\nMohamed Khan one Lakh of rupees were given from the inhertence\nof the late Sirdar Azeem Khan, and in addition he was made a go-\nvernor of Kohistan and Ghazni. Inspite of it all, the final settlement\ncould not be arrived at ; and battles took place between him and\nSirdar Doust Mohamed Khan in the environments of Bala Hisar, at\nShah Shaheed and Beeni Nizar and on the hills of Marunjan. When\nthe fighting men of the contestents were busy in battle against each\nother, the Sirdars used to come together in the tent of Nawab\nSamad Khan to discuss their various poins of dispute ; till it was\nultimately decided that Sirdar Shair Dil Khan was to be considered\nas the head of the Barakzi Brothers ; and to all other brothers vari-\nous portions of property and activities were appotioned:\n\nInasmuch as the Peshawar area could be sufficient for five\nbrothers, namely Yar Mohamed khan, Sultan Mohamed khan, Ata\nMohamed Khan, Said Mohamed Khan and Pir Mohamed Khan; it\nwas decided the last three persons should continue to profit\nby the revenue of that area; and the two yar Mohamed Khan\nand Sultan Mohamed Khan should return to Kabul. The rulership of\nKohistan and Ghazni was deputed to Sirdar Doust Mohamed\nKhan and his real brother Sirdar Amir Mohamed Khan; the\nfirst named was to be the governor of Kohistan, ind Amir Mohamed\nKhan was to be the governor of Ghazni: Nawab Jabhar Khan\nwas to be the governor of Lughman; and Nawab Asad Khan\nwas to be in charge of the remaining portion of the area\nof Dera Jat; Sirdar Shair Dil Khan, his real brothers such\nas Kuhin Dil Khan, and Mihr Dil Khan were to be responsible\nfor Kandahar; and their fifth brother Raham Dil Khan was","chars":2256,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00097.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/97","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/97","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."}}