[1] Also being beloved friend and pupil of Mahatma Gandhi who considered her "Pujya" ("Revered"), during his initial struggle of the Indian Independence Movement and as well as helping him establish his ashram at Sabarmati.

[2][4] Sarabhai returned to India in 1913[5] and started working for betterment of women and the poor, particularly among mill workers.

She decided to get involved in the labour movement after witnessing exhausted female mill workers returning home after a 36-hour shift.

[6] Following this, in 1917, the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (Majdoor Mahajan Sangh) was formed and Anasuya was made its lifelong president by Gandhi.

[1] Sarabhai organized assorted craft unions early in her career and by 1920 was instrumental in establishing the conglomerate Textile Labour Association.