What is the title of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, first published in English in 1927?

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Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, first published in English in 1927, is The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

The work was originally written in Gujarati as Satyana Prayogo athva Atmakatha, commonly translated as An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Gandhi composed it serially while serving as editor of the Gujarati journal Navajivan. The English translation appeared in book form in 1927.

Rather than presenting a conventional political memoir, Gandhi arranged the book around moral and spiritual experiments. He discussed childhood, marriage, religious influences, his legal training, experiences in South Africa, and the development of satyagraha. He repeatedly emphasized that the book described an ongoing search rather than a claim to perfection.

The autobiography ends before many of the best-known events of his later political career, including the Quit India Movement and independence in 1947. Readers sometimes call it simply Gandhi’s autobiography, but its full English title is the distinctive phrase used in the question.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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