Which prison did Mahatma Gandhi use as the setting for writing parts of his autobiography?

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Mahatma Gandhi wrote parts of his autobiography while imprisoned at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune, India.

Gandhi’s autobiography is known in English as The Story of My Experiments with Truth. It was published serially in Gujarati between 1925 and 1929, and the English translation appeared in book form in the late 1920s. Gandhi presented the work as an account of experiments in ethics, religion, diet, politics, and personal discipline rather than as a conventional political memoir.

Yerwada Central Jail became one of the most important prisons in Gandhi’s political life. British authorities detained him there during several periods, including after the 1930 Salt March and during the 1932 fast connected with separate electorates for the Depressed Classes. The prison is in Pune, formerly called Poona.

The Aga Khan Palace is another major Gandhi site in Pune, but it was an internment location where Gandhi and other Congress leaders were held during the Quit India period. It was not the prison associated with writing the autobiography.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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