Autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Name: Autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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ISBN: 9780807059098

ISBN-10: 0807059099

ISBN-13: 9780807059098

Edition: 1993

Authors: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Sissela Bok, Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface The only authorized American edition Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century. In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bok urges us to adopt Gandhi's "attitude of experimenting, of tesing what will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot be adapted to new circumstances," in order to bring about change in our own lives and communities.…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 11/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.34" wide x 8.00" long x 1.45" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Foreword



Translator's Preface



Introduction






Birth and Parentage



Childhood



Child Marriage



Playing the Husband



At the High School



A Tragedy



A Tragedy (Contd.)



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 Gentleman



Changes



Experiments in Dietetics



Shyness My Shield



The Canker of Untruth



Acquaintance with Religions



Narayan Hemchandra



The Great Exhibition



'Called'--But Then?



My Helplessness






Raychandbhai



How I Began Life



The First Case



The First Shock



Preparing for South Africa



Arrival 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 [pound] 3 Tax



Comparative Study of Religions



As a Householder



Homeward



In India



Two Passions



The Bombay Meeting



Poona and Madras



'Return Soon'






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






'Love's Labour's Lost'?



Autocrats from Asia



Pocketed the Insult



Quickened Spirit of Sacrifice



Result of Introspection



A Sacrifice to Vegetarianism



Experiments in Earth and Water Treatment



A Warning



A Tussle with Power



A Sacred Recollection and Penance



Intimate European Contacts



European Contacts (Contd.)



'Indian Opinion'



Coolie Locations or Ghettoes?



The Black Plague--I



The 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



More Experiments in Dietetics



Kasturbai's Courage



Domestic Satyagraha



Towards 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






The First Experience



With Gokhale in Poona



Was it a Threat?



Shantiniketan



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 Wonderful Spectacle!



That Memorable Week!--I



That Memorable Week!--II



'A Himalayan Miscalculation'



'Navajivan' and 'Young India'



In the Punjab



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


Farewell


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