An Autobiography
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Not a great man looking back, but a restless one auditing his own conduct and mostly finding it wanting
Gandhi wrote this in weekly instalments in the 1920s and called it experiments rather than memoir, because he treated his own life as a series of tests of what truth demanded. It covers his childhood, his legal training in London, and the years in South Africa where his methods took shape. He is markedly harder on himself than on anyone else, and the book stops well before the independence campaign that made him famous.
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