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