# The Bombay Chronicle

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thumb|''Bombay Chronicle'' 26 January 1931
'''''The Bombay Chronicle''''' was an [English-language](/source/English_language) [newspaper](/source/newspaper), published from [Mumbai](/source/Mumbai) (then [Bombay](/source/Bombay)),<ref>[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/38481451 WorldCat libraries]</ref> started in 1910 by [Sir Pherozeshah Mehta](/source/Sir_Pherozeshah_Mehta) (1845–1915), a prominent lawyer, who later became the president of the [Indian National Congress](/source/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](/source/Bombay_Legislative_Council) in 1893.<ref>[http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/pherozeshah-mehta.html Pherozeshah Mehta]</ref> [J. B. Petit](/source/J._B._Petit) had assisted [Mehta](/source/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](/source/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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Category:Newspapers established in 1910
Category:English-language newspapers published in India
Category:Defunct newspapers published in India
Category:Newspapers published in Mumbai
Category:Publications disestablished in 1959
Category:1910 establishments in India
Category:1950 disestablishments in India

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