Intro -- An Autobiography: Or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth -- Part I -- Introduction -- Birth and Parentage -- Childhood -- Child Marrriage -- Playing the Husband -- At the High School -- A Tragedy -- A Tragedy Continued -- Stealing and Atonement -- My Father's Death and My Double Shame -- Glimpses of Religion -- Preparation for England -- Outcaste -- In London at Last -- My Choice -- Playing the English Gentleman -- Changes -- Experiments in Dietetics -- Shyness My Shield -- The Canker of Untruth -- Acquaintance with Religions -- 'Nirbal Ke Bala Rama' -- Narayan Hemchandra -- The Great Exhibition -- 'Called', but then? -- My Helplessness -- Part II -- Raychandbhai -- How I Began Life -- The First Case -- The 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 Disposesment -- Settled in Natal -- Colour Bar -- Natal Indian Congress -- Balasundaram -- The £3 Tax -- Comparative Study of Religions -- As a Householder -- Homeward -- In India -- Two Passions -- The Bombay Meeting -- Poona and Madras -- 'Return Soon' -- Part III -- Rumblings of the Storm -- The Storm -- The Test -- The Calm After the Storm -- Education of Children -- Spirit of Service -- Brahmacharya I -- Brahmacharya II -- Simple Life -- The Boer War -- Sanitary Reform and Famine Relief -- Return to India -- In India Again -- Clerk and Bearer -- In the Congress -- Lord Curzon's Darbar -- A Month with Gokhale I -- A Month with Gokhale II -- A Month with Gokhale III -- In Benares -- Settled in Bombay? -- Faith on Its Trial -- To South Africa Again -- Part IV -- 'Love's Labour's Lost'? -- Autocrats from Asia -- Pocketed the Insult.

Quickened Spirit of Sacrifice -- Result of Introspection -- A Sacrifice to Vegetarianism -- Experiments in Earth and Water Treatment -- A Warning -- A Tussle with Power -- A Sacred Recollection and Penance -- Intimate European Contacts -- European Contacts (Continued) -- Indian Opinion -- Coolie Locations or Ghettoes? -- The Black Plague I -- The Black Plague II -- Location in Flames -- The Magic Spell of a Book -- The Phoenix Settlement -- The First Night -- Polak Takes the Plunge -- Whom God Protects -- A Peep into the Household -- The Zulu 'Rebellion' -- Heart Searchings -- The 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 -- A Spiritual Dilemma -- Miniature Satyagraha -- Gokhale's Charity -- Treatment of Pleurisy -- Homeward -- Some Reminiscences of the Bar -- Sharp Practice? -- Clients Turned Co-Workers -- How a Client was Saved -- Part V -- The 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 -- Abolition of Indentured Emigration -- The Stain of Indigo -- The 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 -- A Peep into the Ashram -- The Fast -- The Kheda Satyagraha -- 'The Onion Thief' -- End of Kheda Satyagraha -- Passion for Unity -- Recruiting Campaign -- Near Death's Door -- The Rowlatt Bills and my Dilemma -- That Wonderful Spectacle! -- That Memorable Week! I -- That Memorable Week! II -- 'A Himalayan Miscalculation'.

Navajivan and Young India -- In the Punjab -- The Khilafat Against Cow Protection? -- The Amritsar Congress -- Congress Initiation -- The Birth of Khadi -- Found at Last! -- An Instructive Dialogue -- Its Rising Tide -- At Nagpur -- Farewell -- Copyright.