Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mahatma Gandhi

Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1983 - Philosophy - 468 pages

"My purpose, " Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world; hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandi wrote: "Often the title has deeply pained me...But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field."

Contents

• II: 1
• III: 4
• IV: 6
• V: 9
• VI: 12
• VII: 16
• VIII: 19
• IX: 22
• X: 25
• XI: 28
• XII: 32
• XIII: 36
• XIV: 38
• XV: 41
• XVI: 44
• XVII: 47
• XVIII: 50
• XIX: 53
• XX: 56
• XXI: 59
• XXII: 62
• XXIII: 64
• XXIV: 68
• XXV: 70
• XXVI: 73
• XXVII: 75
• XXVIII: 78
• XXIX: 81
• XXX: 84
• XXXI: 87
• XXXII: 89
• XXXIII: 92
• XXXIV: 95
• XXXV: 99
• XXXVI: 103
• XXXVII: 106
• XXXVIII: 109
• XXXIX: 112
• XL: 115
• XLI: 118
• XLII: 121
• XLIII: 123
• XLIV: 127
• XLV: 130
• XLVI: 134
• XLVII: 136
• XLVIII: 139
• XLIX: 142
• L: 145
• LI: 148
• LII: 151
• LIII: 154
• LIV: 157
• LV: 159
• LVI: 162
• LVIII: 164
• LIX: 167
• LX: 171
• LXI: 174
• LXII: 177
• LXIII: 179
• LXIV: 182
• LXV: 186
• LXVI: 188
• LXVII: 190
• LXVIII: 192
• LXIX: 195
• LXX: 198
• LXXI: 200
• LXXII: 202
• LXXIII: 204
• LXXIV: 207
• LXXV: 209
• LXXVI: 212
• LXXVII: 216
• LXXVIII: 219
• LXXIX: 222
• LXXX: 224
• LXXXII: 226
• LXXXIII: 228
• LXXXIV: 230
• LXXXV: 232
• LXXXVII: 235
• LXXXVIII: 237
• LXXXIX: 239
• XC: 241
• XCI: 243
• XCII: 246
• XCIII: 249
• XCIV: 252
• XCV: 254
• XCVI: 257
• XCVII: 259
• XCVIII: 262
• XCIX: 264
• C: 266
• CI: 268
• CII: 270
• CIII: 272
• CIV: 275
• CV: 278
• CVI: 281
• CVII: 284
• CVIII: 286
• CIX: 288
• CX: 291
• CXI: 293
• CXII: 295
• CXIII: 298
• CXIV: 300
• CXV: 302
• CXVI: 304
• CXVII: 306
• CXVIII: 308
• CXIX: 310
• CXX: 312
• CXXI: 314
• CXXII: 318
• CXXIII: 320
• CXXIV: 322
• CXXV: 324
• CXXVI: 326
• CXXVII: 328
• CXXVIII: 330
• CXXIX: 333
• CXXX: 335
• CXXXI: 337
• CXXXII: 340
• CXXXIII: 343
• CXXXIV: 345
• CXXXV: 347
• CXXXVI: 351
• CXXXVII: 354
• CXXXVIII: 356
• CXXXIX: 359
• CXL: 363
• CXLI: 365
• CXLII: 368
• CXLIII: 371
• CXLIV: 374
• CXLV: 377
• CXLVI: 380
• CXLVII: 382
• CXLVIII: 384
• CXLIX: 386
• CL: 388
• CLI: 392
• CLII: 394
• CLIII: 396
• CLIV: 398
• CLV: 401
• CLVI: 406
• CLVII: 410
• CLVIII: 413
• CLIX: 416
• CLX: 421
• CLXI: 424
• CLXII: 426
• CLXIII: 429
• CLXIV: 432
• CLXV: 436
• CLXVI: 439
• CLXVII: 441
• CLXVIII: 443
• CLXIX: 446
• CLXX: 448
• CLXXI: 451
• CLXXII: 453
• CLXXIII: 455

Bibliographic information

• Title: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth; Social Sciences Series
• Author: Mahatma Gandhi
• Translated by: Mahadev Haribhai Desai
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Courier Corporation, 1983
• ISBN: 0486245934, 9780486245935
• Length: 468 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / General; Philosophy / Eastern