The Bombay Chronicle Explained

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-independent India.^[6]

The newspaper closed down in 1959.^[7]

References

1. http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/38481451 WorldCat libraries
2. http://www.aicc.org.in/new/role-of-press.php ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
3. http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/pherozeshah-mehta.html Pherozeshah Mehta
4. Book: Israel, Milton . Communications and Power: Propaganda and the Press in the Indian Nationalist Struggle, 1920-1947 . 27 March 2012 . 1994 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 978-0-521-46763-6 . 129.
5. Web site: Essay on bhavya pers-of-indian/15798.
6. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521467632 Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947
7. https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/library/titles-of-south-asian-newspapers-on-microfilm/ South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm