William Dalrymple (historian)

Elphinstone 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 the Elphinstone High School.

Economist and politician B. R. Ambedkar attended Elphinstone High School from 1904 to 1907, becoming the first person from the Dalit caste in India to attain this achievement.^{[citation needed]}

• Greater Bombay District Gazetteer 1986, British Period
• Greater Bombay District Gazetteer 1986, Public Life
• Education in India in the 19th Century