Editing The Story of My Experiments with Truth (section)

==  Publication history ==
In the book's preface, Gandhi recalled that he had actually undertaken to sketch out his autobiography as early as 1921 but had to set the work aside due to his political engagements. He took on the labour, he informs us after his fellow workers had expressed a desire that he tell them something about his background and life. Initially he refused to adopt a book format, but then agreed to write it in a serialized form with individual chapters to be published weekly.{{sfn|Malinar|2019|p=1705}}

The autobiography was written and serialized over the period from 25 November 1925 to 3 February 1929{{sfn|Suhrud|2018|p=42}} in 166 installments, which appeared in ''Navajivan''. The corresponding English translations were printed in ''[[Young India]]'', and reprinted in ''[[Indian Opinion]]'' in South Africa, and in the American journal ''Unity''. The [[Hindi]] translation was published almost simultaneously in the Hindi edition of ''Navajivan''.{{sfn|Malinar|2019|p=1705}}{{sfn|Suhrud|2018|p=49}}

The original Gujarati version was published as the ''Satya Na Prayogo'' (lit. ''Experiments with Truth''), bearing the subtitle, ''Atmakatha'' (lit. ''The Story of a Soul'').{{sfn|Suhrud|2011|p=82}} The English version, ''An Autobiography'',  bore the subtitle, ''Experiments with Truth''.{{sfn|Suhrud|2011|p=83}}

In the preface, Gandhi states:<ref name="Lal1992"/>

<blockquote>It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth, and as my life consist of nothing but experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But I shall not mind if every page of it speaks only of my experiments.</blockquote>

''The Story of My Experiments with Truth'' was first published in the United States in 1948 by Public Affairs Press of Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| title = Books and Authors| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2018-12-02| date = 1948-04-21| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1948/04/21/archives/books-and-authors.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0190-8286| title = BOOK PUBLISHER MORRIS SCHNAPPER DIES AT AGE 86| work = The Washington Post| access-date = 2018-12-02| date = 1999-02-07| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/02/07/book-publisher-morris-schnapper-dies-at-age-86/185925ba-2fcd-46ec-98ef-031ff9566331/}}</ref>