(The) Story of my experiments with truth an autobiography
by Mohandas K. Gandhi ; translated by Mahadev Desai and Pyarelal Nair
- Kolkata Book Club 2020
- 392p. ; 22 cm.
Introduction -- PART ONE : Birth and parentage -- Childhood -- Child marriage -- Playing the husband -- At the high school -- A tragedy -- A tragedy (continued) -- Stealing and atonement -- My father's death and my double shame -- Glimpses of religion -- Preparation for England -- Outcaste -- In London at last -- My choice -- Playing the English gentlemen -- Changes -- Experiments in dietetics -- Shyness my shield -- The canker of untruth -- Acquaintance with religions -- 'Nirbal ke bala rama' -- Narayan Hemchandra -- The great exhibition -- 'Called' - but then? -- PART TWO : Raychandbhai -- How i began life -- The first case -- The first shock -- Preparing for South Africa -- Arival in Natal -- Some experiences -- On the way to Pretoria -- More hardships -- First day in Pretoria -- Christian contacts -- Seeking touch with Indians -- What it is to be a 'coolie' -- Preparation for the case -- Religious ferment -- Man proposes, god disposes -- Settled in natal -- Colour bar -- Natal Indian congress -- Balasundaram -- The £3 tax -- Comparative study of religions -- As a housholder -- Homeward -- In India -- Two passions -- The Bombay meeting -- Poona and Madras -- 'Return soon' -- PART THREE : Rumblings of the storm -- The storm -- The test -- The calm after the storm -- Education of children -- Spirit of service -- Brahmacharya - I -- Brahmacharya - II -- Simple life -- The Boer war -- Sanitary reform and famine relief -- Return to India -- In India again -- Clerk and bearer -- In the congress -- Lord Curzon's Darbar -- A month with Gokhale - I -- A month with Gokhale - II -- A month with Gokhale - III -- In Benares -- Settled in Bombay? -- Faith on its trial -- To south Africa again -- PART FOUR : 'Love's labour's lost'? -- Autocrats from Asia -- Pocketed the insult -- Quickened sprit of sacrifice -- Result of introspection --A sacrifice to Vegetarianiam -- Experiments in earth and water treatment -- A warning -- A tussle with power -- A sacred recollection and penance -- Intimate European contacts (continued) -- 'Indian opinion' -- Coolie locations or ghettoes? -- The black plague - I -- he black plague - II -- Location in flames -- The magic spell of a book -- The phoenix settlement -- The first night -- Polak takes the plunge -- Whom god protects -- A peep into the household -- The zulu 'rebellion' -- Heart searchings -- The birth of satyagraha -- Toward self-restraint -- Fasting -- As schoolmaster -- Literary training -- Training of the spirit -- Tares among the wheat -- Fasting as penance -- To meet Gokhale -- My part in the war -- A spiritual dilemma -- Miniature satyagraha -- Gokhale's Charity -- Treatment of pleurisy -- Homeward -- Some reminiscences of the bar -- Sharp practice? -- Clients turned co-workers -- How a client was saved -- PART FIVE : The first experience -- With Gokhale in Poona -- Was it a threat? -- Hantiniketan -- Woes of third class passengers -- Wooing -- Kumbha mela -- Lakshman jhula -- Founding of the ashram -- On the anvil -- Abolition of indentured emigration -- The stain of indigo -- The gentle Bihari -- Face to face with ahimsa -- Case withdrawn -- Methods of work -- Companions -- Penetrating the villages -- When a governor is good -- In touch with labour -- A peep into the ashram -- The fast -- The kheda satyagraha -- The onion thief' -- End of kheda satyagraha -- Passion for unity -- Recruiting campaign -- Near death's door -- The rowlatt bills and my dilemma -- That wounderful spectacle! -- That memorable week! - I -- That memorable week! - II -- 'A Himalayan ' and 'young India' -- In the Panjab -- The khilafat against cow protection? -- The Amritsar congress -- Congress initiation -- The birth of khadi -- Found at last! -- An instructive dialogue -- Its rising tide -- At Nagpur
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