About the Book: An Autobiography Or The Story of My Experiment with Truths
Mohandas K. Gandhis account of his life from early childhood to 1921 was first
published in book form (in two volumes) in Gujarati in the 1920s. The English
language version was also first published in that decade in two volumes and then
reprinted in 1940 in a single volume. It has never been out of print since. What
accounts for its enduring popularity, in multiple editions, nearly a century
after it was published? Writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi in his introduction to this
edition: 'Each generation following him has and will continue to turn