The Story of My Experiments with Truth (An Autobiography) - Softcover

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9383982160 ISBN 13: 9789383982165

Publisher: Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, Varanasi, 2018

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 416

Introduction

Four or five years ago, at the instance of some of my nearest co-workers, I agreed to write my autobiography. I made the start, but scarcely had I turned over the first sheet when riots broke out in Bombay and the work remained at a standstill. Then followed a series of events which culminated in my imprisonment at Yeravda. Sjt. Jeramdas, who was one of my fellow-prisoners there, asked me to put everything else on one side and finish writing the autobiography. I replied that I had already framed a programme of study for myself, and that I could not think of doing anything else until this course was complete. I should indeed have finished the autobiography had I gone through my full term of imprisonment at Yeravda, for there was still a year left to complete the task, when I was discharged. Swami Anand has now repeated the proposal, and as I have finished the history of Satyagraha in South Africa, I am tempted to undertake the autobiography for Navajivan. The Swami wanted me to write it separately for publication as a book. But I have no spare time. I could only write a chapter week by week. Something has to be written for Navajivan every week. Why should it not be the autobiography? The Swami agreed to the proposal, and here am I hard at work.
But a God-fearing friend had his doubts, which he shared with me on my day of silence. 'What has set you on this adventure?' he asked, 'Writing an autobiography is a practice peculiar to the West. I know of nobody in the East having written one, except amongst those who have come under Western influence. And what will you write? Supposing you reject tomorrow the things you hold as principles today, or supposing you revise in the future your plans of today, is it not likely that the men who shape the

Edition details

• Publisher: Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, Varanasi
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9383982160
• ISBN 13: 9789383982165
• Binding: Paperback