The Bombay Chronicle

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]

Bombay Chronicle 26 January 1931

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

The newspaper closed down in 1959.^[7]

References

1. WorldCat libraries
2. ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM 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 the History of Early Newspapers of Indian". preservearticles.com. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
6. Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947
7. South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm 29 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine