An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth

The first edition of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Autobiography was published in two volumes, Vol. I in 1927 and Vol. II in 1929. The original in Gujarati which was priced at Re. 1/- has run through five editions, nearly 50,000 copies having been sold. The price of the English translation (only issued in library edition) was prohibitive for the Indian reader, and a cheap edition has long been needed.

Translated by Mahadev Desai

Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: 'Great Soul', a honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: 'Father'). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

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