# Manilal Gandhi — The Story of My Experiments with Truth character guide

> Manilal Gandhi in The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Manilal

**First appearance:** 0050-part-ii-xxiii-as-a-householder

## Snapshot

Gandhi's second son, raised inside the ashram experiment and drawn into its demanding discipline.

## Who they are

Manilal grows up as both son and pupil in a household where fatherhood and moral instruction were inseparable, and where the children of the community received the same exacting care as Gandhi's own. His presence shadows the autobiography's reflections on education, responsibility, and the cost of a father who belonged first to his experiments. The early chapters on family quietly set up the tensions that will shape his later life.

## In the story

### [Education of Children](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iii-v-education-of-children)

One of Gandhi's sons who was educated at home and later at an improvised school for Satyagrahi children; mentioned as having complaints about lack of literary education.

### [Return to India](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iii-xii-return-to-india)

Supports Gandhi's decision to return the gifts and helps persuade Kasturbai.

### [Faith on Its Trial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iii-xxii-faith-on-its-trial)

Gandhi's second son, aged ten, suffers from a severe attack of typhoid combined with pneumonia and delirium.

### [To South Africa Again](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iii-xxiii-to-south-africa-again)

Mentioned as having been restored to health, prompting the move to a better bungalow.

### [A Peep Into the Household](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iv-xxiii-a-peep-into-the-household)

One of the children brought up in Johannesburg; mentioned as forgiving his father's failure in literary training.

### [A Peep Into the Household](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iv-xxiii-a-peep-into-the-household)

The eldest son who stayed in India; later expressed distress privately and publicly about lack of literary education.

### [Kasturbai’s Courage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-iv-xxviii-kasturbai-s-courage)

Present during the Swami's visit and supports his father's and mother's stance on vegetarianism.

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