(An Autobiography or the story of my experiments with truth)Satyache Prayog Va Aatmkatha

Mahatma Gandhi tells the story of his life up to the early 1920s, which he describes as experiments in finding truth. He recalls his childhood in Porbandar and an early marriage, his studies in London, his first work as a lawyer in South Africa, where he experienced discrimination and started his political activism, and his return to India. He writes about his vegetarianism, his vow of celibacy, his methods of satyagraha, nonviolent resistance, and his mistakes. Gandhi is unusually frank about his failings.

Readers interested in Indian history, religion, ethics, or nonviolent action will find the account of how his ideas formed. It reads as the personal reflections of someone who kept testing his own conduct.

Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

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