An Autobiography

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Gandhi succeeded in uniting India in a national movement and did as much in the first half of the twentieth century as any other single individual to change the course of history. In this classic autobiography, first published under the title The Story of My Experiments with Truth, he recounts the story of his life from boyhood and child-marriage, through the first stirrings of non-violent protest in South Africa to the early phase of his part in India's fight for independence.Gandhi succeeded in uniting India in a national movement and did as much in the first half of the twentieth century as any other single individual to change the course of history. In this classic autobiography, first published under the title The Story of My Experiments with Truth, he recounts the story of his life from boyhood and child-marriage, through the first stirrings of non-violent protest in South Africa to the early phase of his part in India's fight for independence.
Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar, India. He studied law in London and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1891. He worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians in South Africa, returning to India in 1915 to take up the struggle for independence from Britain. Gandhi never wavered in his belief in non-violent protest and in 1947 he succeeded in uniting India in a national movement. In January 1948 Gandhi was assassinated as he walked to take evening prayers.