The Story of My Experiments with Truth / Mohandas K. Gandhi

Title: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Author: Mohandas K. Gandhi 

Subjects: Autobiography

It is an autobiography of one of the most influential man on earth. Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Nathuram Godse assassinated Gandhi on 30 January 1948. This is one of the must read autobiography. 

CONTENTS

PART ONE

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

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

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'

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

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

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