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Gandhi’s Unfinished Autobiography: Silence, Self-Representation, and the Ethics of Historical Memory

Author(s) Dr. Jyothi S
Country India
Abstract Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, concludes in 1920, precisely at the moment when his public life entered its most decisive and turbulent phase. The decades that followed—marked by mass nationalist movements, debates with B. R. Ambedkar on caste, complex negotiations with Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, the trauma of Partition, and experiments in ethical self-discipline—remain largely undocumented in sustained autobiographical form. This paper examines the intellectual and historiographical implications of that silence. It argues that Gandhi’s decision to discontinue self-narration created a representational vacuum in which later ideological, nationalist, and revisionist interpretations have flourished. By analysing Gandhi’s earlier confessional method alongside the political and moral crises of his later years, the study explores how autobiographical incompletion shapes collective memory. The essay contends that reconstructing Gandhi’s unwritten interior is not an act of reverence or denunciation, but a democratic necessity. The unfinished autobiography, far from being a minor literary gap, emerges as a structural absence in India’s ethical and political archive, compelling contemporary scholarship to revisit the relationship between self-representation, moral leadership, and historical memory.
Keywords Mahatma Gandhi; autobiography; political silence; narrative ethics; historiography; caste debate; Ambedkar–Gandhi dialogue; Partition; Indian nationalism; ethical leadership; memory studies; postcolonial state formation.
Published In Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-02-27
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