AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
 THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH
by Mohandas K. Gandhi

*Editor's note by Mahadev Desai, 1940*

*Editor's note by FWP, 2006*
{This e-text is dedicated to my mother
and to my dear friend Pratt Remmel}
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*Gandhi's introduction (1925)*
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*PART ONE*
*PART TWO*
*PART THREE*
*PART FOUR*
*PART FIVE*
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PART ONE
*1. Birth and parentage* — *2. Childhood* — *3. Child marriage* — *4. Playing the husband* — *5. At the high school* — *6. A tragedy* — *7. A tragedy (continued)* — *8. Stealing and atonement* — *9. My father's death and my double shame* — *10. Glimpses of religion* — *11. Preparation for England* — *12. Outcaste* — *13. In London at last* — *14. My choice* — *15. Playing the English gentleman* — *16. Changes* — *17. Experiments in dietetics* — *18. Shyness my shield* — *19. The canker of untruth* — *20. Acquaintance with religions* — *21. 'Nirbal ke bala Rama'* — *22. Narayan Hemchandra* — *23. The Great Exhibition* — *24. 'Called'—but then?* — *25. My helplessness*

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*Chapters 1-10*; *Chapters 11-20*; *Chapters 21-25*

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PART TWO
*1. Raychandbhai* — *2. How I began life* — *3. The first case* — *4. The first shock* — *5. Preparing for South Africa* — *6. Arrival in Natal* — *7. Some experiences* — *8. On the way to Pretoria* — *9. More hardships* — *10. First day in Pretoria* — *11. Christian contacts* — *12. Seeking touch with Indians* — *13. What it is to be a 'coolie'* — *14. Preparation for the case* — *15. Religious ferment* — *16. Man proposes, God disposes* — *17. Settled in Natal* — *18. Colour bar* — *19. Natal Indian Congress* — *20. Balasundaram* — *21. The £3  tax* — *22. Comparative study of religions* — *23. As a householder* — * 24. Homeward* — *25. In India* — *26. Two passions* — *27. The Bombay meeting* — *28. Poona and Madras* — *29. 'Return soon'*

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*Chapters 1-10*; *Chapters 11-20*; *Chapters 21-29*

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PART THREE
*1. Rumblings of the storm* — *2. The storm* — *3. The test* — *4. The calm after the storm* — *5. Education of children* — *6. Spirit of service* — *7. Brahmacharya--I* — *8. Brahmacharya--II* — *9. Simple life* — *10. The Boer War* — *11. Sanitary reform and famine relief* — *12. Return to India* — *13. In India again* — *14. Clerk and bearer* — *15. In the Congress* — *16. Lord Curzon's darbar* — *17. A month with Gokhale--I* — *18. A month with Gokhale--II* — *19. A month with Gokhale--III* — *20. In Benares* — *21. Settled in Bombay?* — *22. Faith on its trial* — *23. To South Africa again*

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*Chapters 1-10*; *Chapters 11-20*; *Chapters 21-23*

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PART FOUR
*1. 'Love's Labour's Lost?'* — *2. Autocrats from Asia* — *3. Pocketed the insult* — *4. Quickened spirit of sacrifice* — *5. Result of introspection* — *6. A sacrifice to vegetarianism * — *7. Experiments in earth and water treatment* — *8. A warning* — *9. A tussle with power* — *10. A sacred recollection and penance* — *11. Intimate European contacts* — *12. European contacts (Cont'd)* — *13. 'Indian Opinion'* — *14. Coolie locations or ghettoes?* — *15. The black plague--I* — *16. The black plague--II* — *17. Location in flames* — *18. The magic spell of a book* — *19. The Phoenix Settlement* — *20. The first night* — *21. Polak takes the plunge* — *22. Whom God protects* — *23. A peep into the household* — *24. The Zulu 'rebellion'* — *25. Heart searchings* — *26. The birth of Satyagraha* — *27. More experiments in dietetics* — *28. Kasturbai's courage* — *29. Domestic Satyagraha* — *30.  owards self-restraint* — *31. Fasting* — *32. As schoolmaster* — *33. Literary training* — *34. Training of the spirit* — *35. Tares among the wheat* — *36. Fasting as penance* — *37. To meet Gokhale* — *38. My part in the war* — *39. A spiritual dilemma* — *40. Miniature Satyagraha* — *41. Gokhale's charity* — *42. Treatment of pleurisy* — *43. Homeward* — *44. Some reminiscences of the bar* — *45. Sharp practice?* — *46. Clients turned co-workers* — *47. How a client was saved*

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*Chapters 1-10*; *Chapters 11-20*; *Chapters 21-30*; *Chapters 31-40*; *Chapters 41-47*

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PART FIVE
*1. The first experience* — *2. With Gokhale in Poona* — *3. Was it a threat?* — *4. Shantiniketan* — *5. Woes of third class passengers* — *6. Wooing* — *7. Kumbha mela* — *8. Lakshman Jhula* — *9. Founding of the ashram* — *10. On the anvil* — *11. Abolition of indentured emigration* — *12. The stain of indigo* — *13. The gentle Bihari* — *14. Face to face with Ahimsa* — *15. Case withdrawn* — *16. Methods of work* — *17. Companions* — *18. Penetrating the villages* — *19. When a Governor is good* — *20. In touch with labour* — *21. A peep into the ashram* — *22. The fast* — *23. The Kheda Satyagraha* — *24. 'The onion thief'* — *25. End of Kheda Satyagraha* — *26. Passion for unity* — *27. Recruiting campaign* — *28. Near death's door* — *29. The Rowlatt Bills and my dilemma* — *30. That wonderful spectacle!* — *31. That memorable week!--I* — *32. That memorable week!--II* — *33. 'A Himalayan miscalculation'* — *34. 'Navajivan' and 'Young India'* — *35. In the Punjab* — *36. The Khilafat against cow protection?* — *37. The Amritsar Congress* — *38. Congress initiation* — *39. The birth of Khadi* — *40. Found at last!* — *41. An instructive dialogue* — *42. Its rising tide* — *43. At Nagpur* — *[44.] Farewell*

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*Chapters 1-10*; *Chapters 11-20*; *Chapters 21-30*; *Chapters 31-40*; *Chapters 41-44*

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