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Elphinstone college Elphinstone College Mumbai Elphinstone College, c. 1905. The Elphinstone College consists of two academic entities: Junior and Degree colleges. Degree or "senior" college was affiliated to University of Mumbai till 2019. And, it was later made a constituent college of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University. This was a newly formed ...
Mountstuart Elphinstone. Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population.
Reference no. 1480. The David Sassoon Library and Reading Room is a famous library and heritage structure in Mumbai, India. The idea for a library to be situated in the center of the city came from Albert Sassoon, son of the famous Baghdadi Jewish philanthropist, David Sassoon. [1]
Elphinstoners High School was a school established in 1824 in Bombay, India in honour of Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay (1819–1827). In 1836 the Elphinstone Institute was founded, which started the Elphinstone College. The English medium school in Bombay was renamed as the Elphinstone High School. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was ...
Joshi thereafter joined the Elphinstone College at Mumbai in 1870. He began to learn Sanskrit only after joining the college, and within one year made up the subject to the required standard and got through the Examination. He passed the B.A. in 1873, with Logic and Moral Philosophy, and History and Political Economy as his optional subjects.
v. t. e. Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917), also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India", was an Indian Independence activist, political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of the Indian National Congress from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to ...
Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadia Clock Tower is a heritage structure in Fort, Mumbai, India, that was erected in 1882 using public funds as a token of appreciation for Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadi, a Parsi philanthropist who had contributed to the cause of education in the city. [1] He was a member of the Bombay Native Education Society and on the board of ...
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