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]