{{Short description|Indian English-language newspaper}}{{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2022}} thumb|''Bombay Chronicle'' 26 January 1931 '''''The Bombay Chronicle''''' was an English-language newspaper, published from Mumbai (then Bombay),<ref>[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/38481451 WorldCat libraries]</ref> started in 1910 by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta (1845–1915), a prominent lawyer, who later became the president of the Indian National Congress in 1890,<ref>[http://www.aicc.org.in/new/role-of-press.php ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113172144/http://www.aicc.org.in/new/role-of-press.php |date=13 January 2010 }}</ref> and a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1893.<ref>[http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/pherozeshah-mehta.html Pherozeshah Mehta]</ref> J. B. Petit had assisted Mehta in launching the newspaper and later went on to control the ''Indian Daily Mail''.<ref>{{cite book |first=Milton |last=Israel |title=Communications and Power: Propaganda and the Press in the Indian Nationalist Struggle, 1920–1947 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dkI_RHPPGKMC&pg=PA129 |accessdate=27 March 2012 |year=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-46763-6 |page=129}}</ref> From 1913 to 1919 it was edited by B. G. Horniman.<ref>{{cite web|title=Essay on bhavya pers-of-indian/15798}}</ref>
It was an important Nationalist newspaper of its time, and an important chronicler of the political upheavals of a volatile pre-independence India.<ref>[http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521467632 Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947]{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
The newspaper closed down in 1959.<ref>[https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/library/titles-of-south-asian-newspapers-on-microfilm/ South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629001200/http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/newspapers.html |date=29 June 2007 }}</ref>
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