The Bombay Chronicle

Indian English-language newspaper

Bombay Chronicle 26 January 1931

The Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper, published from Mumbai (then Bombay),[1] started in 1910 by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta (1845–1915), a prominent lawyer, who later became the president of the Indian National Congress in 1890,[2] and a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1893.[3] J. B. Petit had assisted Mehta in launching the newspaper and later went on to control the Indian Daily Mail.[4] From 1913 to 1919 it was edited by B. G. Horniman.[5]

It was an important Nationalist newspaper of its time, and an important chronicler of the political upheavals of a volatile pre-independence India.[6]

The newspaper closed down in 1959.[7]

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1. ^ WorldCat libraries
2. ^ ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Archived 13 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ Pherozeshah Mehta
4. ^ Israel, Milton (1994). Communications and Power: Propaganda and the Press in the Indian Nationalist Struggle, 1920–1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 129\. ISBN 978-0-521-46763-6. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
5. ^ "Essay on bhavya pers-of-indian/15798". `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|url=` (help)
6. ^ Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947
7. ^ South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm Archived 29 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine