Elphinstone College

This grand Victorian institution in the Fort district ranks among Mumbai's oldest colleges, founded in the mid-19th century and named after a former governor of Bombay. Its neo-Gothic facade of arches, buff-coloured stone and a central clock tower marks a key node in the ensemble of colonial civic buildings near the harbour. Visitors admire the ornamented exterior and its role in the city's intellectual history, having schooled generations of reformers and writers. The building sits within the Kala Ghoda art precinct.