CONTENTS Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama ix Preface xi Translator's Note xv Translator's Acknowledgements xvii 1 From the Laboratory to the Field 1 2 Inhabiting India 8 3 The Call of the Conscience 21 4 Champaran 32 5 Ahimsa in the Textile City 53 6 Among the Peasants of Kheda 71 7 Recruitment: An Incomplete Experiment 98 8 Dysentery, Piles and Goat's Milk 111 9 The Lure of Responsible Government 119 10 Nation Awakens 128 11 The Punjab 146 12 Sharing the Experiences ofTruth: Navajivan andYoung India 158 13 Khilafat 166 14 To the Congress 190 15 Non-cooperation 204 16 Unvanquished in Defeat 229 17 A Loyalist Turns Disaffectionist 244 18 Smouldering Embers 253 19 The Mahatma and the Poet: Truth Called Them Differently 267 20 The Tempest 287 21 Fast as Prayer and Penance 306 22 Drifting Apart 320 23 A Crown of Thorns 335 24 Love-force at Work 353 25. Vykom Satyagraha 361 26. Abode of the Soul 373 27. Self-purification for Social Change 385 28. Mirabehn 400 29. Experiments with Truth 408 30. Simon Commission 418 31. Soul of the Ashram 432 32. Charkha 449 33. Rest, Self-Purification and Prayer 461 34. With the People 472 35. Declining Communal Situation 484 36. From Dominion Status to Independence 494 37. Sardar's Bardoli 518 38. The Bugles Blow 547 39. Before the March 566 40. The Gospel of Selfless Action 587 41. Dandi March 595 42. From Dandi to Dharasana 623 43. Soul-force Against Brute-force 644 44. Gandhi-Irwin Pact 666 45. The Sixteen Manifestations of Satyagraha 682 Index 691