My Experiments With Truth: The Autobiography of MohandasKaramchandGandhi (or Mahatma Gandhi) covers his life from earlychildhoodthrough to 1920, and is a popular and influential book. Itwasinitiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and othercloseco-workers of Gandhi, in his mother-tongue GujaratientitledSatyana Prayogo athva Atmakatha. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) was a charismatic leaderwhobrought the case for Indias independence to world attention.Hisphilosophy of nonviolence, for which he coined the termsatyagraha,has influenced nonviolent resistance movements to thisday. ForGandhi, Truth was the sovereign principle; inclusive ofmany otherspiritual principles and schools of thought.