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''The Bombay Chronicle'' was an English-language South Asian Newspapers on Microfilm
''The Bombay Chronicle'' was an English-language newspaper
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, published from Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
(then Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
), started in 1910 by Sir Pherozeshah Mehta (1845-1915), a prominent lawyer, who later became the president of the Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...
in 1890, and a member of the Bombay Legislative Council
Bombay Legislative Council was the legislature of the Bombay Province and later the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Bombay Province in British India and the Indian state of Bombay.
History
The Indian Councils Act 1861 set up the Bo ...
in 1893. J. B. Petit had assisted Mehta in launching the newspaper and later went on to control the ''Indian Daily Mail''. From 1913 to 1919 it was edited by B. G. Horniman.
It was an important Nationalist newspaper of its time, and an important chronicler of the political upheavals of a volatile pre-independent India.
The newspaper closed down in 1959.References