Gandhi's mother is against the idea and to get her approval, Gandhi has to take a vow to not touch wine, women or meat while away. He stays for just one semester and then decides to go to England where he can become a barrister in three years. Gandhi finishes high school and goes on to study at Samaldas College, a local college located in Bhavnagar. His father dies when he is sixteen and still in school. He is excited about the marriage at the time but both Gandhi and Kasturbai are against early marriages for their children. While still in high school at the age of 13, in an arranged marriage, Gandhi marries a woman named Kasturbai, who stands by him his whole life. He is educated in the local schools until he finishes high school. The story begins with Gandhi's childhood in the Porbandar and Rajkot. The book is basically about how Gandhi arrives at the principles he holds and how they come about from his search for and belief in truth. Gandhi says that at this point, his life has become so public that there is no need for him to write about it. Gandhi traces Gandhi's life from his birth in Porbandar until the end of 1920, after his policy of non-cooperation with government is passed by the All-India Congress Committee. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K.
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