The Story of My Life / История моей жизни

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Махатма Карамчанд Ганди. The Story of My Life / История моей жизни

The Story of My Life

Introduction

Part I: Childhood and youth

1. Birth and Parentage

2. At School

3. Marriage

4. A Tragic Friendship

5. Stealing

6. My Father's Illness & Death

7. Glimpses of Religion

8. Preparation for England

9. On board the ship

Part II: In England as student

10. In London

11. Playing the English Gentleman

12. Changes

13. Shyness My Shield

14. Acquaintance with Religions

Part III: In India as barrister

15. Back in India

16. The First Shock

Part IV: In South Africa

17. Arrival in South Africa

18. To Pretoria

19. First day in Pretoria

20. Getting acquainted with the Indian problem

21. The Case

22. Man proposes, God disposes

23. The £ 3 Tax

Part V: Visit to India

24. In India

Part VI: Back in South Africa

25. Stormy arrival in South Africa

26. Simple Life

27. A Recollection and Penance

28. The Boer War

29. Costly Gifts

Part VII: Back in India

30. My First Congress

31. In Bombay

Part VIII: In South Africa again

32. In South Africa Again

33. Study of the Gita

34. The magic spell of a book

35. The Phoenix Settlement

36. The Zulu Rebellion

37. Kasturba's Courage

38. Domestic Satyagraha

39. The advent of Satyagraha satyagraha

40. Imprisonment

41. Assault

42. Resumption of Satyagraha

43. The triumph of Satyagraha

Part IX: In India and founding of the Ashram

44. In Poona

45. Founding of the Ashram

Part X: Champaran

46. The stain of indigo

47. The stain removed

Part XI: Ahmedabad labour

48. In touch with labour

Part XII: The Kheda Satyagraha

49. The Kheda Satyagraha

50. Near death's door

Part XIII: The Rowlatt act and entrance into politics

51. The Rowlatt Act

Part XIV: The birth of Khadi

52. The birth of Khadi

53. Farewell

Third class in Indian Railways

Vernaculars as media of instruction

Swadeshi

Ahimsa

The moral basis of cooperation

National dress

Freedom's battle. Being a comprehensive collection of writings and speeches on the present situation

I. Introduction

The mussalman agony

The hindu dharma

An enduring treaty

The british connection

The alternative

The fifth upaya

Some objections

Emancipation

II. The khilafat

Why i have joined the khilafat movement

The turkish treaty

Turkish peace terms

The suzerainty over arabia

Further questions answered

Mr. Candler's open letter

In process of keeping

Appeal to the viceroy

The premier's reply

The mussulman representation

Criticism of the muslim manifesto

The mahomedan decision

Mr. Andrews' difficulty

The khilafat agitation

Hijarat and its meaning

III. The punjab wrongs

Political freemasonry

The duty of the punjabee

General dyer

The punjab sentences

IV. Swaraj

Swaraj in one year

British rule – an evil

A movement of purification

Why was india lost?

Swaraj my ideal

On the wrong track

The congress constitution

Swaraj in nine months

The attainment of swaraj

V. Hindu moslem unity

The hindus and the mahomedans

Hindu-mahomedan unity

Hindu-muslim unity

VI. Treatment of the depressed classes

Depressed classes

Amelioration of the depressed classes

The sin of untouchability

VII. Treatment of indians abroad

Indians abroad

Indians overseas

Pariahs of the empire

VIII. Noncooperation

Mr. Montagu on the khilafat agitation

At the call of the country

Non-cooperation explained

Religious authority for non-cooperation

The inwardness of non-cooperation

A missionary on non-cooperation

How to work non-cooperation

Speech at madras

Lokamanya Tilak

Need for non-cooperation

Is it unconstitutional?

Non-cooperation and the special congress

Boycott of the councils

Lawyers and non-cooperation

Parents and non-cooperation

The duty of title holders

Non-cooperation – service to the empire

Speech at trichinopoly

Council elections

Lawyers' practice

Government schools

Boycott of british goods

Conclusion

Speech at calicut

Speech at mangalore

Speech at bezwada

The congress

Who is disloyal?

Crusade against non-cooperation

Speech at muzaffarabad

Ridicule replacing repression

The viceregal pronouncement

From ridicule, to – ?

To every englishman in india

One step enough for me

The need for humility

Some questions answered

Pledges broken

More objections answered

Mr. Pennington's objections answered

Mr. Pennington's letter to mr. Gandhi

Some doubts

Rejoinder

Two englishmen reply

Renunciation of medals

Mahatma gandhi's letter to h.R.H. The duke of connaught

The greatest thing

IX. Mahatma Gandhi's statement

Written statement

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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography or story of my life. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, the story will take the shape of an autobiography. My experiments in the political field are now known. But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field. The experiments I am about to relate are spiritual, or rather moral; for the essence of religion is morality.

Only those matters of religion that can be understood as much by children as by older people, will be included in this story. If I can narrate them in a dispassionate and humble spirit many other experiments will… obtain from them help in their onward march.

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I sailed at last from Bombay on the 4th of September.

I was not used to talking English, and except for Shri Mazmudar all the other passengers in the second saloon were English. I could not speak to them. For I could rarely follow their remarks when they came up to speak to me, and even when I understood I could not reply. I had to frame every sentence in my mind before I could bring it out. I was innocent of the use of knives and forks and had not the boldness to inquire what dishes on the menu were free of meat. I therefore never took meals at table but always had them in my cabin, and they consisted principally of sweets and fruits which I had brought with me. Shri Mazmudar had no difficulty, and he mixed with everybody. He would move about freely on deck, while I hid myself in the cabin the whole day, only going up on deck when there were but few people. Shri Mazmudar kept pleading with me to associate with the passengers and to talk with them freely.

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