{"book":"adl1197","page":99,"text":"-86-\npower of Kabul, all the other Barakzai Brothers at Kandahar were\nawaiting the outcome of the struggle. Those Sirdars who were\nin Peshawar, too, watched the day of a final clash or agreement\nbetween Sirdar Doust Mohamed Khan and Sirdar Mohamed Azeem\nKhan. This attitude of expectations continued for the other Sirdrs\ndid not want to complicate themselves in an affair, which ult-\nimately must be solved one way or the other, this con-\ntinued till Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan died; and his sudden death\naltered the stiuation rapidly; because as the balance deserted\nKabul as a center; those Barekzai Brothers, who lived more\nor less contently at Kandahar and at Peshawar, now took a deeper\ninterest in the affair of Kabul. From Kandahar, therefore, first\nSirdar Pur Dil Khan, and then Sirdar Shair Dil Khan entered Kabul.\nThe interference of the Sirdars of Kandahar, quite naturally had to\ndecide the struggle which raged between Sirdar Habibullah Khan\ntheson of Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan ane Sirdar Doust Mohame\nKhan. All this produced a struggle; which occasioned animosity between\nthe Barakzai Sirdars and disturbed the peace of the mind of the\npeople. Ultimately Sirdar Shair Dil Khan produced a scheme of Apporti-\noning which had been discribed in the article number twenty two.\nInspite of the fact that to each brother vast enougt property had been\ngiven, the outward appearance did not portray the inner feelings\nof their hearts; for as expectations of greater magnitude were in in\nthe hearts of these men; conditions arose, which made the operations\nscheme of Shair Dil Khan nul and void. There could be done nothing\nelse than to evolve a frseh Scheme\n\nSirdar Shair Dil Khan after laying down his plans, left for Kan-\ndahar; and in the month of Muhharum of 1242. A. H. he did. As\nKabul, according to his scheme was given to Sirdar Yar Mohamed\nKhan and Sirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan; the first named Sirdar took\nover the government of Kadul into his hands, and other of their bro-\nthers like Ata Mohamed Khan,Said Mohamed Khan and Pir Mohamed\nKhan remained as before at Peshawar. Later on when Sirdar Ata\nMohame Khan died, Sirdar Yar Mohamed Khan took over the govern-\nment ot Peshawar, and gave the government of Kabul to his brother\nSultan Mohamed Khan: although according to the scheme,Sirdar Doust","chars":2306,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00099.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/99","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/99","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."}}