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[[File:Bombay Chronicle January 26 1931.jpg|thumb|''Bombay Chronicle'' January 26, 1931]]<br />
'''''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=January 13, 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 the History of Early Newspapers of Indian|url=http://www.preservearticles.com/essay-on-the-history-of-early-newspapers-of-indian.html|accessdate=30 November 2012}}</ref><br />
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It was an important Nationalist newspaper of its time, and an important chronicler of the political upheavals of a volatile pre-independent 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]</ref> <br />
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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=June 29, 2007 }}</ref><br />
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