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The Bombay Chronicle was an English-language newspaper, published from Mumbai (then Bombay),cite-ref-1[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,cite-ref-2[2] and a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1893.cite-ref-3[3] J. B. Petit had assisted Mehta in launching the newspaper and later went on to control the Indian Daily Mail.cite-ref-4[4] From 1913 to 1919 it was edited by B. G. Horniman.cite-ref-5[5]

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

The newspaper closed down in 1959.cite-ref-7[7]

cite-note-11. ↑ WorldCat libraries

cite-note-22. ↑ ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Archived 13 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine

cite-note-33. ↑ Pherozeshah Mehta

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefisrael1994Israel, 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.

cite-note-55. ↑ "Essay on bhavya pers-of-indian/15798". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

cite-note-66. ↑ Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947

cite-note-77. ↑ South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm Archived 29 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine