Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography

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THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH Mahatma Gandhi What was it that made Mahatma Gandhi a truly charismatic leader and an embodiment of an ideal human being? It is undoubtedly TRUTH-'his sovereign school of thought.' At the insistence of Swami Anand, Gandhiji set upon to record his autobiography, covering his life from early childhood through to 1920. This book is an entire list of life experiences of Gandhiji, all of which prove to contribute to his spiritual evolvement, and in turn, each go to influence his way of thinking. This book is a must read, as it is a live example of how modesty, wisdom and truth adapt themselves in making of a MAHATMA. Table of Contents Translator's Preface Introduction PART - I 1. Birth And Parentage 2. Childhood 3. Child Marriage 4. Playing The Husband 5. At The High School 6. A Tragedy 7. Stealing And Atonement 8. My Father's Death And My Double Shame 9. Glimpses Of Religion 10. Preparation For England 11. Outcaste 12. In London At Last 13. My Choice 14. Playing The English Gentleman 15. Changes 16. Experiments In Dietetics 17. Shyness My Shield 18. The Canker Of Untruth 19. Acquaintance With Religions 20. Nirbal Ke Bala Rama 21. Narayan Hemchandra 22. The Great Exhibition 23. 'Called - But Then? 24. My Helplessness PART - II 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 IsTo 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 - III 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 - IV 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 (Continued) 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. Towards 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-V 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 Farewell