{"book":"adl1197","page":98,"text":"— 85 —\nto rule over Sindh; Nawab Zaman Khan the son of Nawed Samad\nKhan was made the governor of Jalalabad; and Habibullah\nKhan the son of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, who was really\nresponsible for all this discord and trouble, was made responsible\nfor Logar. Sirdar Shair Dil Khan after dividing the country\nin this fashion-which may be called the scheme of Sirdar shair Dil\nKhan- left for Kandahar and died in the month of Muharram 1242.\nA.H. (1856.A.D) The death of Sirdar shair Dil Khan, and death of other\nSirdars like Yar Mohamed Khan and Sirdar Rahmdil Khan, as well\nas other circumstance that came into being, occasioned the producing\nanother Scheme of Apportionment.\n\nTHE SCHEME OF 1242. A. H.\nARTICLE TWENTY THIRD\n\nAt the time when the position of the Saduzai rule had become\nvery feeble at Kabul, and that it ultimately completely disappea-\nred; and when Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan becoming powerful in\nthe central part of the country, the Barakzai Brothers and their\ndescendents several times resorted to the apportioning of the\ncountry as their personal property. The reason of this was the\nlarge number of the descendents and relatives; and every one\nof them wanted a share according to his own relatives and their\nnumbers. This state of affairs unfortunately created a spirit of\nfuedal system of government; but the matter came to be\nbetter pass with the advent and the growing power of Amir\nDoust Mohamed Khan.\n\nIn the article number twenty two, we had given some details\nabout the apportioning of the country into several parts amongst\nthe Sirdars and their sons; this scheme was evolved after the\ndeath of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan; which was ultimately res-\nolved during the life of Sirdar Shair Dil Khan.\nWhen Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan and Sirdar Doust Mohamed\nKhan were in a secret conflict with each other over the ruling","chars":1841,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00098.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/98","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/98","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."}}