DNA: Why is the name of Mount Everest not Mount Radhanath Sikdar?
In 1865, the Royal Geographical Society named the highest mountain peak in the world as 'Mount Everest'. It was named after Sir George Everest. Radhanath Sikdar, a mathematician from West Bengal, first recorded the height of Mount Everest. But the British empire hid his name and attributed the great discovery to Sir Andrew Scott Waugh. He was the director of Survey of India at the time, so this credit was taken away from Radhanath Sikdar and given to Andrew Waugh.
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