The Bombay Chronicle

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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-independence India. [6]

The newspaper closed down in 1959. [7]

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References

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  2. ROLE OF PRESS IN INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM Archived 13 January 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 bhavya pers-of-indian/15798".{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. Propaganda and the Press in the Indian National Struggle, 1920–1947
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