Gandhi was an ever evolving personality and ashramic life both in South Africa and India played an important role in his personal evolution from an Inner Temple lawyer to Mahatma or Bapu of common masses. The greatest contribution of Gandhi is that through his community experiments he changed the very notion of the Ashram which was far away from mundane life. James D. Hunt, Gandhi scholar from America aptly said “ The Gandhian communities never were retreats from the world; they were attempts to change the world.”