LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Gandhi’s Autobiography as a Discourse on
His Spiritual Journey

K. R. Vijaya, Ph.D.


Truth and Experiment

Gandhi’s My Experiments with Truth is one of the imperishable classics of India. It originally appeared week by week in Navajavan (in Gujarati) and in Young India (in English). Later, it was translated by Desai and issued in book form in the year 1925.

The book is basically about how Gandhi arrived at the principles he held and how they came about from his search for truth. In this autobiographical record, he describes in detail, the events of his life from birth to his higher education in England, his formative years as Lawyer and activist in South Africa, his return to India, and his subsequent entry into and his reshaping of the Independence movement.

Gandhi clearly states “"I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography” (Autobiography xii). He says “I shall try to be as harsh as truth as I want others also to be”( Autobiography XII).This book is a tool for him to express his concepts of Satyagraha, the holding onto satyam (truth) in negotiations, Swaraj (self-rule or Home rule), ahimsa (non-volence) and so on. He does this by reviewing and evaluating his life with the lens of truth.


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K. R. Vijaya, M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D.
Department of English
Easwari Engineering College
Chennai
Tamilnadu, India
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