mahadev desai translated the story of my experiments with truth in english.
mahadev desai translated the story of my experiments with truth in english.
who translated the story of my experiments with truth in english?
mahadev desai
this section is written by mahadev desai who translated the book from gujarati to english in 1940. in this preface desai notes that the book was originally published in two volumes, the first in 1927 and second in 1929. he also mentions that the original was priced at and had a run of five editions by the time of the writing of his preface. 50,000 copies had been sold in gujarati but since the english edition was expensive it prevented indians from purchasing it. desai notes the need to bring out a cheaper english version. he also mentions that the translation has been revised by an english scholar who did not want his name to be published. chapters xxix-xliii of part v were translated by desai's friend and colleague pyarelal.
the story of my experiments with truth
after its initiation, "the story of my experiments with truth" remained in the making for 4–5 years (including the time while gandhi was imprisoned at yerwada central jail near pune, maharashtra), and then it first appeared as a series in the weekly gujarati magazine "navjivan" during 1925–1928, which was published from ahmedabad, india.









































"the story of my experiments with truth" was first published in the united states in 1948 by public affairs press of washington, dc.









































section::::influences.
the story of my experiments with truth