The Bombay Chronicle

Bombay Chronicle January 26, 1931

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[edit]

↑ WorldCat libraries
↑ ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Archived January 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
↑ Pherozeshah Mehta
↑ Israel, 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.
↑ "Essay on the History of Early Newspapers of Indian". Retrieved 30 November 2012.
↑ Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947
↑ South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm Archived June 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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[1] WorldCat libraries

[2] ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Archived January 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[3] Pherozeshah Mehta

[4] Israel, 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.

[5] "Essay on the History of Early Newspapers of Indian". Retrieved 30 November 2012.

[6] Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947

[7] South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm Archived June 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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