Introduction

  Editor's Note

  Publisher's Note

PART I : CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

  Birth and Parentage

  At School

  Marriage

  A Tragic Friendship

  Stealing

  My father's illness and death

  Glimpses of Religion

  Preparation for England

  On Board the Sip

PART II : IN ENGLAND AS STUDENT

  In London

  Playing the English Gentleman

  Changes

  Shyness My Shield

PART III : IN INDIA AS BARRISTER

  Back In India

  The First Shock

PART IV : IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Arrival in South Africa

  To Pretoria

  First Day in Pretoria

  Getting acquainted with the Indian problem

  The Case

  Man proposes, God disposes

  The £ 3 Tax

PART V : VISIT TO INDIA

  In India

PART VI : BACK IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Stormy arrival in South Africa

  Simple Life

  A recollection and a penance

  The Boer War

  Costly Gifts

PART VII : BACK IN INDIA

  My First Congress

  In Bombay

PART VIII : IN SOUTH AFRICA AGAIN

  In South Africa again

  Study of the Gita

  The magic spell of a book

  The Phoenix Settlement

  The Zulu Rebellion

  Kasturba's Courage

  Domestic Satyagraha

  The Advent of Satyagraha

  Imprisonment

  Assault

  Resumption of Satyagraha

  The triumph of Satyagraha

PART IX : IN INDIA AND FOUNDING OF THE ASHRAM

  In Poona

  Founding of the Ashram

PART X : CHAMPARAN

  The stain of indigo

  The stain removed

PART XI : AHMEDABAD LABOUR

  In touch with labour

PART XII : THE KHEDA SATYAGRAHA

  The Kheda Satyagraha

  Near death's door

PART XIII : THE ROWLATT ACT AND ENTRANCE INTO POLITICS

  The Rowlatt Act

PART XIV : THE BIRTH OF KHADI

  The birth of Khadi

  Farewell