India: A History

by John Keay

Moreover, if ‘primarily designed to strengthen and unite Indians [and] to influence them rather than in a direct way to weaken the administration’,3 its success was limited. Unlike the 1919–22 Rowlatt-Khilafat protests, the 1930–1 protests did not enjoy Muslim support. The common condiment proved to be of less universal appeal than Gandhi had hoped, and Muslims seemingly preferred to take the government’s salt to that of Congress.