Index

Introduction

PART I

1

Birth And Parentage

2

Childhood

3

Child Marriage

4

Playing The Husband

5

At The High School

6

A Tragedy

7

A Tragedy (Continued)

8

Stealing And Atonement

9

My Father's Death And My Double Shame

10

Glimpses of Religion

11

Preparation For England

12

Outcaste

13

In London At last

14

My Choice

15

Playing The English Gentleman

16

Changes

17

Experiments In Dietetics

18

Shyness My Shield

19

The Canker Of Untruth

20

Acquaintance With Religions

21

'Nirbal Ke Bala Rama'

22

Narayan Hemchandra

23

The Great Exhibition

24

'Called' - But Then?

25

My Helplessness

PART II

26

Raychandbhai

27

How I Began Life

28

The First Case

29

The First Shock

30

Preparing For South Africa

31

Arrival In Natal

32

Some Experiences

33

On The way To Pretoria

34

More Hardships

35

First Day In Pretoria

36

Christian Contacts

37

Seeking Touch With Indians

38

What It Is To Be A 'Coolie'

39

Preparation For The Case

40

Religious Ferment

41

Man Proposes, God Disposes

42

Settled In Natal

43

Colour Bar

44

Natal Indian Congress

45

Balasundaram

46

The 3 Tax

47

Comparative Study Of Religions

48

As A Householder

49

Homeward

50

In India

51

Two Passions

52

The Bombay Meeting

53

Poona And Madras

54

  'Return Soon'

PART III

55

Rumblings Of The Storm

56

The Storm

57

The Test

58

The Calm After The Storm

59

Education Of Children

60

Spirit Of Service

61

Brahmacharya - I

62

Brahmacharya - II

63

Simple Life

64

The Boer War

65

Sanitary Reform And Famine Relief

66

Return To India

67

In India Again

68

Clerk And Bearer

69

In The Congress

70

Lord Curson's Darbar

71

A Month With Gokhale - I

72

A Month With Gokhale - II

73

A Month With Gokhale - III

74

In Benaras

75

Settled In Bombay

76

Faith On Its Trail

77

To South Africa Again

PART IV

78

'Love's Labour's Lost'

79

Autocrats From Asia

80

Pocketed The Insult

81

Quickened Spirit Of Sacrifice

82

Result Of Introspection

83

A Sacrifice To Vegetarianism

84

Experiments In Earth And Water Treatment

85

A Warning

86

A Tussle With Power

87

A Sacred Recollection And Penance

88

Intimate European Contacts

89

European Contacts (Continued)

90

Indian Opinion

91

Coolie Locations Or Ghettos?

92

The Black Plague-I

93

The Black Plague-II

94

Location In Flames

95

The Magic Spell Of A Book

96

The Phoenix Settlement

97

The First Night

98

Polak Takes The Plunge

99

Whom God Protects

100

A Peep Into The Household

101

The Zulu 'Rebellion'

102

Heart Searchings

103

The Birth Of Satyagraha

104

More Experiments In Dietetics

105

Kasturba's Courage

106

Domestic Satyagraha

107

Towards Self -Restraint

108

Fasting

109

As Schoolmates

110

Literary Training

111

Training Of The Spirit

112

Tares Among The Wheat

113

Fasting As Penance

114

To Meet Gokhale

115

My Part In The War

116

A Spiritual Dilemma

117

Miniature Satyagraha

118

Gokhale's Charity

119

Treatment of Pleurisy

120

Homeward

121

Some Reminiscences Of The Bar

122

Sharp Practice?

123

Clients Turned Co-Workers

124

How A Client Was Saved

PART V

125

The First Experience

126

With Gokhale In Poona

127

Was It A Threat?

128

Shantiniketan

129

Woes Of Third Class Passengers

130

Wooing

131

Kumbha Mela

132

Lakshman Jhula

133

Founding of The Ashram

134

On The Anvil

135

Abolition Of Indentured Emigration

136

The Stain Of Indigo

137

The Gentle Bihari

138

Face To Face With Ahimsa

139

Case Withdrawn

140

Methods Of Work

141

Companions

142

Penetrating The Villages

143

When A Governor Is Good

144

In Touch With Labour

145

A Peep Into The Ashram

146

The Fast

147

The Kheda Satyagraha

148

'The Onion Thief'

149

End Of Kheda Satyagraha

150

Passion For Unity

151

Recruiting Campaign

152

Near Death's Door

153

The Rowlatt Bills And My Dilemma

154

That Wonderful Spectacle!

155

That Memorable Week! - I

156

That Memorable Week! - II

157

'A Himalayan Miscalculation'

158

Navajivan And Young India

159

In The Punjab

160

The Khilafat Against Cow Protection?

161

The Amritsar Congress

162

Congress Initiation

163

The Birth Of Khadi

164

Found At Last!

165

An Instructive Dialogue

166

Its Rising Tide

167

At Nagpur

168

Farewell


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