He admits to stealing and drinking excessively – all actions from which he now aspires to redeem himself. Gandhi recalls eating meat, a practice he later renounced, and relates that he had a rather hedonistic lifestyle in general.
The beginning of the autobiography traces Gandhi’s childhood and young adult life in Rajkot and Porbandar. Gandhi expresses ambivalence about the usefulness of the typical autobiography, a Western literary invention.
He also claims that the book is moral and spiritual in nature, mostly straying from politics. In the book’s introduction, Gandhi disclaims that the opinions and ideas expressed in his autobiography are subject to change and that its purpose is not to relay a static picture of himself, but to show how personal truths evolve over time. The book has been recognized as one of the most important spiritual works of the twentieth century. The autobiography seeks to explain the experiential roots of Gandhi’s activist vocation. Gandhi was compelled to write the autobiography by his close friend, Swami Anand, who would become his literary manager.
Published in a weekly journal, Navjivan, between 19, it covers the span of time between Gandhi’s early childhood through roughly 1921. The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Indian activist Mohandas K.
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