| Foreword | p. xi |
| Translator's Preface | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
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| Birth and Parentage | p. 3 |
| Childhood | p. 6 |
| Child Marriage | p. 8 |
| Playing the Husband | p. 11 |
| At the High School | p. 14 |
| A Tragedy | p. 19 |
| A Tragedy (Contd.) | p. 22 |
| Stealing and Atonement | p. 25 |
| My Father's Death and My Double Shame | p. 28 |
| Glimpses of Religion | p. 31 |
| Preparation for England | p. 35 |
| Outcaste | p. 39 |
| In London at Last | p. 42 |
| My Choice | p. 45 |
| Playing the English Gentleman | p. 48 |
| Changes | p. 52 |
| Experiments in Dietetics | p. 55 |
| Shyness My Shield | p. 59 |
| The Canker of Untruth | p. 63 |
| Acquaintance with Religions | p. 67 |
| Narayan Hemchandra | p. 72 |
| The Great Exhibition | p. 76 |
| 'Called'--But Then? | p. 78 |
| My Helplessness | p. 81 |
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| Raychandbhai | p. 87 |
| How I Began Life | p. 90 |
| The First Case | p. 93 |
| The First Shock | p. 96 |
| Preparing for South Africa | p. 100 |
| Arrival in Natal | p. 102 |
| Some Experiences | p. 105 |
| On the Way to Pretoria | p. 109 |
| More Hardships | p. 113 |
| First Day in Pretoria | p. 118 |
| Christian Contacts | p. 122 |
| Seeking Touch with Indians | p. 125 |
| What It Is to Be A 'Coolie' | p. 128 |
| Preparation for the Case | p. 131 |
| Religious Ferment | p. 135 |
| Man Proposes, God Disposes | p. 138 |
| Settled in Natal | p. 141 |
| Colour Bar | p. 145 |
| Natal Indian Congress | p. 148 |
| Balasundaram | p. 153 |
| The [pound] 3 Tax | p. 155 |
| Comparative Study of Religions | p. 158 |
| As a Householder | p. 162 |
| Homeward | p. 165 |
| In India | p. 168 |
| Two Passions | p. 172 |
| The Bombay Meeting | p. 175 |
| Poona and Madras | p. 178 |
| 'Return Soon' | p. 180 |
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| Rumblings of the Storm | p. 185 |
| The Storm | p. 188 |
| The Test | p. 191 |
| The Calm After the Storm | p. 196 |
| Education of Children | p. 199 |
| Spirit of Service | p. 202 |
| Brahmacharya--I | p. 204 |
| Brahmacharya--II | p. 208 |
| Simple Life | p. 212 |
| The Boer War | p. 214 |
| Sanitary Reform and Famine Relief | p. 217 |
| Return to India | p. 219 |
| In India Again | p. 222 |
| Clerk and Bearer | p. 225 |
| In the Congress | p. 227 |
| Lord Curzon's Darbar | p. 229 |
| A Month with Gokhale--I | p. 231 |
| A Month with Gokhale--II | p. 233 |
| A Month with Gokhale--III | p. 236 |
| In Benares | p. 239 |
| Settled in Bombay? | p. 243 |
| Faith on Its Trial | p. 246 |
| To South Africa Again | p. 249 |
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| 'Love's Labour's Lost'? | p. 255 |
| Autocrats from Asia | p. 257 |
| Pocketed the Insult | p. 259 |
| Quickened Spirit of Sacrifice | p. 262 |
| Result of Introspection | p. 264 |
| A Sacrifice to Vegetarianism | p. 267 |
| Experiments in Earth and Water Treatment | p. 269 |
| A Warning | p. 271 |
| A Tussle with Power | p. 274 |
| A Sacred Recollection and Penance | p. 276 |
| Intimate European Contacts | p. 279 |
| European Contacts (Contd.) | p. 282 |
| 'Indian Opinion' | p. 285 |
| Coolie Locations or Ghettoes? | p. 287 |
| The Black Plague--I | p. 290 |
| The Black Plague--II | p. 292 |
| Location in Flames | p. 295 |
| The Magic Spell of a Book | p. 297 |
| The Phoenix Settlement | p. 300 |
| The First Night | p. 302 |
| Polak Takes the Plunge | p. 304 |
| Whom God Protects | p. 306 |
| A Peep into the Household | p. 310 |
| The Zulu 'Rebellion' | p. 313 |
| Heart Searchings | p. 315 |
| The Birth of Satyagraha | p. 318 |
| More Experiments in Dietetics | p. 320 |
| Kasturbai's Courage | p. 322 |
| Domestic Satyagraha | p. 325 |
| Towards Self-Restraint | p. 328 |
| Fasting | p. 330 |
| As Schoolmaster | p. 333 |
| Literary Training | p. 335 |
| Training of the Spirit | p. 338 |
| Tares Among the Wheat | p. 340 |
| Fasting as Penance | p. 342 |
| To Meet Gokhale | p. 344 |
| My Part in the War | p. 346 |
| A Spiritual Dilemma | p. 348 |
| Miniature Satyagraha | p. 351 |
| Gokhale's Charity | p. 355 |
| Treatment of Pleurisy | p. 357 |
| Homeward | p. 359 |
| Some Reminiscences of the Bar | p. 361 |
| Sharp Practice? | p. 363 |
| Clients Turned Co-Workers | p. 365 |
| How a Client Was Saved | p. 367 |
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| The First Experience | p. 373 |
| With Gokhale in Poona | p. 375 |
| Was it a Threat? | p. 377 |
| Shantiniketan | p. 380 |
| Woes of Third Class Passengers | p. 383 |
| Wooing | p. 385 |
| Kumbha Mela | p. 387 |
| Lakshman Jhula | p. 391 |
| Founding of the Ashram | p. 395 |
| On the Anvil | p. 397 |
| Abolition of Indentured Emigration | p. 400 |
| The Stain of Indigo | p. 404 |
| The Gentle Bihari | p. 406 |
| Face to Face with Ahimsa | p. 409 |
| Case Withdrawn | p. 413 |
| Methods of Work | p. 416 |
| Companions | p. 419 |
| Penetrating the Villages | p. 422 |
| When a Governor is Good | p. 424 |
| In Touch with Labour | p. 426 |
| A Peep into the Ashram | p. 428 |
| The Fast | p. 430 |
| The Kheda Satyagraha | p. 434 |
| 'The Onion Thief' | p. 436 |
| End of Kheda Satyagraha | p. 439 |
| Passion for Unity | p. 441 |
| Recruiting Campaign | p. 444 |
| Near Death's Door | p. 450 |
| The Rowlatt Bills and My Dilemma | p. 454 |
| That Wonderful Spectacle! | p. 457 |
| That Memorable Week!--I | p. 460 |
| That Memorable Week!--II | p. 466 |
| 'A Himalayan Miscalculation' | p. 469 |
| 'Navajivan' and 'Young India' | p. 471 |
| In the Punjab | p. 475 |
| The Khilafat Against Cow Protection? | p. 478 |
| The Amritsar Congress | p. 482 |
| Congress Initiation | p. 486 |
| The Birth of Khadi | p. 489 |
| Found at Last! | p. 491 |
| An Instructive Dialogue | p. 494 |
| Its Rising Tide | p. 497 |
| At Nagpur | p. 500 |
| Farewell | p. 503 |
| Index | p. 506 |
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