The Story of My Experiments with Truth

The Story of My Experiments with Truth is an autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, written in Gujarati under the original title Satyana Prayogo athva Atmakatha and covering his life from early childhood through 1921. Gandhi composed the book in weekly installments published in his own journal Navjivan between November 1925 and February 1929, a total of 166 installments, with an English translation appearing simultaneously in his journal Young India; the complete work was later published as a book, reaching an American edition in 1948. The autobiography recounts Gandhi's upbringing in Gujarat, his legal education in London, his early career in South Africa, and his developing philosophy of truth and nonviolence, framing his life story explicitly as a series of experiments in living according to those principles rather than as a conventional chronicle of achievements. Widely translated and reprinted, it remains one of the most influential autobiographies of the twentieth century and a primary source for understanding the personal and ethical foundations of Gandhi's public life.