My Experiments with Truth

recounts Gandhiji's journey from being Mohandas to becoming the Mahatma and also recollects the various incidents that lead him to develop the ideology of Ahimsa. Starting with his days as a boy, Gandhi takes one through his trials and turmoils and situations that moulded his philosophy of life; going through child marriage, his studies in England, practicing Law in South Africa; and his Satyagraha there; to the early beginnings of the Independence movement in India.

The book is divided into 5 parts covering his childhood, his adolescent experiments at drinking, smoking, stealing and eating meat; his early marriage at the age of 13 years; and his education and career which took him to Africa.