This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiographical workThe Story of My Experiments with Truth(1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that “no work on his life has portrayed him in totality” (Desai, 2009), and, although “arguably the most popular figure of the first half of the twentieth century” and “one of the most eminent luminaries of our time,” Gandhi the...