Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to Britishcontrolled India bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to nonviolent change and his belief always in the power of truth. Under Gandhis lead millions of protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience seeking change through ahimsa or nonviolence. For Gandhi the long path towards Indian independence would lead to imprisonment and hardship yet he never once forgot the principles of truth and nonviolence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s Gandhis autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations a powerful and enduring statement of an extraordinary life.It is a true inspiration to read this personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha nonviolent protest movement. His early boyhood life legal studies purification and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this work of insurmountable importance.