Includes index.

Birth and parentage --
Childhood --
Child marriage --
Playing the husband --
At the high school --
Tragedy --
Stealing and atonement --
My father's death and my double shame --
Glimpses of religion --
Preparatio for England --
Outcaste --
In London at last --
My choice --
Playing the English gentleman --
Changes --
Experiments in dietetics --
Shyness my shield --
Canker of untruth --
Acquaintance with religions --
Narayan Hemchandra --
Great exhibition --
Called --
but then? --
My helplessness --
Raychandbhai --
How I began life --
First case --
First shock --
Preparing for South Africa --
Arrival in Natal --
Some experiences --
On the way to Pretoria --
More hardships --
First day in Pretoria --
Christian contacts --
Seeking touch with Indians --
What it is to be a 'coolie' --
Preparation for the case --
Religious ferment --
Man proposes, God disposes --
Settled in Natal --
Colour bar --
Natal Indian congress --
Balasundaram --
The £ 3 tax --
Comparative study of religions --
As a householder --
Homeward --
In India --
Two passions --
Bombay meeting --
Poona and Madras --
'Return soon' --
Rumblings of the storm --
Storm --
Test --
Calm after the storm --
Education of the children --
Spirit of service --
Brahmacharya --
Simple life --
Boer war --
Sanitary reform and famine relief --
Return to India --
In India again --
Clerk and bearer --
In the congress --
Lord Curzon's darbar --
Month with Gokhale --
In Benares --
Settled in Bombay? --
Faith on its trial --
To South Africa again. 'Love's labours lost'? --
Autocrats from Asia --
Pocketed the insult --
Quickened spirit of sacrifice --
Result of introspection --
Sacrifice to vegetarianism --
Experiments in earth and water treatments --
Warning --
Tussle with power --
Sacred recollection and penance --
Intimate European contacts --
'Indian opinion' --
Coolie locations or ghettoes? --
Black plague --
Location in flames --
Magic spell of a book --
Phoenix settlement --
First night --
Polak takes the plunge --
Whom God protects --
Peep into the household --
Zulu 'rebellion' --
Heart searcings --
Birth of Satyagraha --
More experiments in dietetics --
Kasturbai's courage --
Domestic Satyagraha --
Towards self-restraint --
Fasting --
As schoolmaster --
Literary training --
Training of the spirit --
Tares among the wheat --
Fasting as penance --
To meet Gokhale --
My part in the war --
Spiritual dilemma --
Miniature Satyagraha --
Cokhale's charity --
Treatment of pleurisy --
Homeward --
Some reminiscences of the bar --
Sharp practice? --
Clients turned co-workers --
How a client was saved. First experience --
With Gokhale in Poona --
Was it a threat? --
Shantiniketan --
Woes of third class passengers --
Wooing --
Kumbha Mela --
Lakshman Jhula --
Founding of the Ashram --
On the anvil --
Abolution of indentured emigration --
Stain of indigo --
Gentle Bihari --
Face to face with Ahimsa --
Case withdrawn --
Methods of work --
Companions --
Penetrating the villages --
When a governor is good --
In touch with labour --
Peep into the Ashram --
Fast --
Kheda Satyagraha --
'Onion thief' --
End of Kheda Satyagraha --
Passion for unity --
recruiting campaign --
Near death's door --
Rowlatt bills and my dilemma --
That wonderful spectacle --
That memorable week! --
'Himalayan miscalculation' --
'Navajivan' and 'young India' --
in the Punjab --
Khilafat against cow protection? --
Amritsar congress --
Congress initiation --
Birth of Khadi --
Found at last! --
Instructive dialogue --
Its rising tide --
At Nagpur --
Farewell.

In his classic autobiography Gandhi recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.