India, April 25 -- A 178-year-old Marathi-medium girls' high school in Mumbai, started by visionary reformers including Jagannath Sunkersett, is struggling to survive. Once known as a pillar of women's education in Mumbai, the school faces an uncertain future due to social and policy changes.

The Students Literary and Scientific Society School (SL &SS girls), which operates out of a building more than a century old, is located in Thakurdwar in Girgaon. The management has made an emotional appeal to citizens and the government, asking for support to protect the historic institution.

The society that runs the school was established in 1848 by social reformers such as Dadabhai Naoroji, Bhau Daji Lad, Jagannath Sunkersett, Justice K T Telan...