My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this inspiring and critical work of insurmountable importance.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written and published in his journal, Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. It was initiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and other close co-workers of Gandhi, who encouraged him to explain the background of his public campaigns.
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this inspiring and critical work of insurmountable importance.
- In 1999, the book was designated as one of the “100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century” by a committee of global spiritual and religious authorities.
About Gandhi's Autobiography
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About Gandhi’s Autobiography
My experiments with Truth: INTRODUCTION
- My experiments with Truth: INTRODUCTION
My experiments with Truth: PART I
- Chapter 1: Birth And Parentage
- Chapter 2: Childhood
- Chapter 3: Child Marriage
- Chapter 4: Playing The Husband
- Chapter 5: At The High School
- Chapter 6: A Tragedy
- Chapter 7: A Tragedy (Continued)
- Chapter 8: Stealing And Atonement
- Chapter 9: My Father’s Death And My Double Shame
- Chapter 10: Glimpses Of Religion
- Chapter 11: Preparation For England
- Chapter 12: Outcaste
- Chapter 13: In London At Last
- Chapter 14: My Choice
- Chapter 15: Playing The English Gentleman
- Chapter 16: Changes
- Chapter 17: Experiments In Dietetics
- Chapter 18: Shyness My Shield
- Chapter 19: The Canker Of Untruth
- Chapter 20: Acquaintance With Religions
- Chapter 21: Nirbal Ke Bala Rama
- Chapter 22: Narayan Hemchandra
- Chapter 23: The Great Exhibition
- Chapter 24: ‘Called’ – But Then?
- Chapter 25: My Helplessness
My experiments with Truth: PART II
- Chapter 1: Raychandbhai
- Chapter 2: How I Began Life
- Chapter 3: The First Case
- Chapter 4: The First Shock
- Chapter 5: Preparing For South Africa
- Chapter 6: Arrival In Natal
- Chapter 7: Some Experiences
- Chapter 8: On The Way To Pretoria
- Chapter 9: More Hardships
- Chapter 10: First Day In Pretoria
- Chapter 11: Christian Contacts
- Chapter 12: Seeking Touch With Indians
- Chapter 13: What It Is To Be A ‘Coolie’
- Chapter 14: Preparation For The Case
- Chapter 15: Religious Ferment
- Chapter 16: Man Proposes, God Disposes
- Chapter 17: Settled In Natal
- Chapter 18: Colour Bar
- Chapter 19: Natal Indian Congress
- Chapter 20: Balasundaram
- Chapter 21: The £3 Tax
- Chapter 22: Comparative Study Of Religions
- Chapter 23: As A Householder
- Chapter 24: Homeward
- Chapter 25: In India
- Chapter 26: Two Passions
- Chapter 27: The Bombay Meeting
- Chapter 28: Poona And Madras
- Chapter 29: ‘Return Soon’
My experiments with Truth: PART III
- Chapter 1: Rumblings Of The Storm
- Chapter 2: The Storm
- Chapter 3: The Test
- Chapter 4: The Calm After The Storm
- Chapter 5: Education Of Children
- Chapter 6: Spirit Of Service
- Chapter 7: Brahmacharya – I
- Chapter 8: Brahmacharya – Ii
- Chapter 9: Simple Life
- Chapter 10: The Boer War
- Chapter 11: Sanitary Reform And Famine Relief
- Chapter 12: Return To India
- Chapter 13: In India Again
- Chapter 14: Clerk And Bearer
- Chapter 15: In The Congress
- Chapter 16: Lord Curzon’s Darbar
- Chapter 17: A Month With Gokhale – I
- Chapter 18: A Month With Gokhale – Ii
- Chapter 19: A Month With Gokhale – Iii
- Chapter 20: In Benaras
- Chapter 21: Settled In Bombay?
- Chapter 22: Faith On Its Trial
- Chapter 23: To South Africa Again
My experiments with Truth: PART IV
- Chapter 1: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost?’
- Chapter 2: Autocrats From Asia
- Chapter 3: Pocketed The Insult
- Chapter 4: Quickened Spirit Of Sacrifice
- Chapter 5: Result Of Introspection
- Chapter 6: A Sacrifice To Vegetarianism
- Chapter 7: Experiments In Earth And Water Treatment
- Chapter 8: A Warning
- Chapter 9: A Tussle With Power
- Chapter 10: A Sacred Recollection And Penance
- Chapter 11: Intimate European Contacts
- Chapter 12: European Contacts (Continued)
- Chapter 13: ‘Indian Opinion’
- Chapter 14: Coolie Locations Or Ghettoes?
- Chapter 15: The Black Plague – I
- Chapter 16: The Black Plague – Ii
- Chapter 17: Location In Flames
- Chapter 18: The Magic Spell Of A Book
- Chapter 19: The Phoenix Settlement
- Chapter 20: The First Night
- Chapter 21: Polak Takes The Plunge
- Chapter 22: Whom God Protects
- Chapter 23: A Peep Into The Household
- Chapter 24: The Zulu ‘Rebellion’
- Chapter 25: Heart Searchings
- Chapter 26: The Birth Of Satyagraha
- Chapter 27: More Experiments In Dietetics
- Chapter 28: Kasturbai’s Courage
- Chapter 29: Domestic Satyagraha
- Chapter 30: Towards Self-Restraint
- Chapter 31: Fasting
- Chapter 32: As Schoolmaster
- Chapter 33: Literary Training
- Chapter 34: Training Of The Spirit
- Chapter 35: Tares Among The Wheat
- Chapter 36: Fasting As Penance
- Chapter 37: To Meet Gokhale
- Chapter 38: My Part In The War
- Chapter 39: A Spiritual Dilemma
- Chapter 40: Miniature Satyagraha
- Chapter 41: Gokhale’s Charity
- Chapter 42: Treatment Of Pleurisy
- Chapter 43: Homeward
- Chapter 44: Some Reminiscences Of The Bar
- Chapter 45: Sharp Practice?
- Chapter 46: Clients Turned Co-Workers
- Chapter 47: How A Client Was Saved
My experiments with Truth: PART V
- Chapter 1: The First Experience
- Chapter 2: With Gokhale In Poona
- Chapter 3: Was It A Threat?
- Chapter 4: Shantiniketan
- Chapter 5: Woes Of Third Class Passengers
- Chapter 6: Wooing
- Chapter 7: Kumbha Mela
- Chapter 8: Lakshman Jhula
- Chapter 9: Founding Of The Ashram
- Chapter 10: On The Anvil
- Chapter 11: Abolition Of Indentured Emigration
- Chapter 12: The Stain Of Indigo
- Chapter 13: The Gentle Bihari
- Chapter 14: Face To Face With Ahimsa
- Chapter 15: Case Withdrawn
- Chapter 16: Methods Of Work
- Chapter 17: Companions
- Chapter 18: Penetrating The Villages
- Chapter 19: When A Governor Is Good
- Chapter 20: In Touch With Labour
- Chapter 21: A Peep Into The Ashram
- Chapter 22: The Fast
- Chapter 23: The Kheda Satyagraha
- Chapter 24: ‘The Onion Thief’
- Chapter 25: End Of Kheda Satyagraha
- Chapter 26: Passion For Unity
- Chapter 27: Recruiting Campaign
- Chapter 28: Near Death’s Door
- Chapter 29: The Rowlatt Bills And My Dilemma
- Chapter 30: That Wonderful Spectacle !
- Chapter 31: That Memorable Week! – I
- Chapter 32: That Memorable Week ! – II
- Chapter 33: ‘A Himalayan Miscalculation’
- Chapter 34: Navjivan And Young India
- Chapter 35: In The Punjab
- Chapter 36: The Khilafat Against Cow Protection?
- Chapter 37: The Amritsar Congress
- Chapter 38: Congress Initiation
- Chapter 39: The Birth Of Khadi
- Chapter 40: Found At Last !
- Chapter 41: An Instructive Dialogue
- Chapter 42: Its Rising Tide
- Chapter 43: At Nagpur
My experiments with Truth: FAREWELL
- My experiments with Truth: FAREWELL
Born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, Mahatma Gandhi studied law and came to advocate for the rights of Indians, both at home and in South Africa. Gandhi became a leader of India’s independence movement, organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948.
