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	Radhanath Sikdar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radhanath Sikdar (Bangla: রাধানাথ শিকদার) (1813-1870) was a Bengali Indian mathematician who calculated the height of Peak XV in the Himalaya and discovered it to be the tallest mountain above sea level.
		Sikdar worked for the Surveyor General of India, a division of the British Raj in India at that time.
		The stamps feature Radhanath Sikdar and Nain Singh, two significant contributors to society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radhanath_Sikdar (252 words)

	detrimental postulation » the sikdar moment
		Where he is known, Radhanath Sikdar, the Bengali mathematician and later publisher, is known for “discovering Everest.”; That is, he is supposed to have carried out the calculations in 1852 which discovered that “Peak XV”; was the highest known point.
		Sikdar […] was later to discover the highest peak in the world (though his claim was appropriated by his white boss, George Everest).
		It is quite probable that Sikdar’s computations provided the first clear proof of (peak) XV’s superiority [but] the popular account of the Bengali rushing into Waugh’s office in Dehra Dun exclaiming that he had ‘discovered the world’s highest mountain’ is obviously rubbish.
	rob.ifanything.org /detriment/index.php?p=204 (685 words)

	Re: [Assam] Mount Radhanath, NOT Mount Everest
		I first read the name Radhanath Sikdar in 1943 in a “Book of Knowledge.” I was quite young at that time.
		Re: [Assam] Mount Radhanath, NOT Mount Everest Barua25
		Re: [Assam] Mount Radhanath, NOT Mount Everest Himendra Thakur
	www.mail-archive.com /assam@assamnet.org/msg05544.html (928 words)

	Roots: The Progress of Science
		One of these Hindoo College graduate was Radhanath Sikdar, who joined the Great Trigonometric Survey in 1840.
		The lone native intruder was Radhanath Sikdar (1813-1870).
		Radhanath Sikdar in the Trigonometrical Survey and P N Bose in the Geological Survey were exceptions.
	sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1scprog.html (4711 words)

	Trigonometrical Survey
		The Survey is commemorated by the stylized map of India on the middle stamp.
		Nain Singh (1826-82) and Radhanath Sikdar (1813-1870) are also pictured on the souvenir sheet.
		Singh explored the Himalayas, mapped the trade route to Tibet, mapped a large part of the Tsangpo River in Tibet, and determined the altitude and coordinates of Lhasa.
	sio.midco.net /mapstamps/trigsurv.htm (122 words)

	Re: [Assam] Mount Radhanath, NOT Mount Everest
		Let us assume that Mr Radanath Sikdar was the one who who made the calculations which showed that Mt Everest was the highest peak.
		Re: [Assam] Mount Radhanath, NOT Mount Everest umesh sharma
		Re: [Assam] Mount Radhanath, NOT Mount Everest mc mahant
	www.mail-archive.com /assam@assamnet.org/msg05581.html (1896 words)

	Mount Everest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Chinese People's Daily newspaper published an article in 2002 attacking the continued use of the English name for the mountain in the Western world, insisting that it should be referred to by its Tibetan name.
		Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on measurements made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India.
		Before it was surveyed and named, it was known as Peak XV to the survey team.
	encyclopedia.vestigatio.com /Mount_Everest (5175 words)

	Unique Facts about Asia: Mount Everest
		The summit ridge of the mountain marks the border between Nepal and Tibet, with the actual summit located in Tibet.
		Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's tallest peak in 1852 through trigonometric calculations based on measurements made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India.
		Prior to its survey and naming it was known as Peak XV to the survey team.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /Asiaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Asia2.htm (578 words)

	Mount Everest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although it named Everest by Sir Andrew Waugh the British surveyor-general of India in honour of his predecessor Sir George Everest the popular pronunciation of Everest (Ev-er-est) different from how Sir George pronounced his last name (Eve-rest).
		Some Indians believe that the peak be named after Sikdar not Everest.
		The mountain is approximately 8 850 m (29 035 feet ; almost 5.5 miles) high although there is some variation the measurements (though Nepal government has not recognized this measurement the height of Everest still considered 8 848 m).
	www.freeglossary.com /Mount_Everest (2146 words)

	Calcutta : Kolkata : Calcutta : History of calcutta : Kolkata history
		Radhanath Sikdar (1813 — 1870) and Pyarichand Mitra (1814 — 1883) brought out a journal in
		Radhanath Sikdar of the Trigonometrical survey of India in 1852 discovered and measured the highest peak in the world.
		But this peak was named Mount Everest, after the name of his colonial boss the director of the survey of India.
	www.bangalinet.com /calcutta3.htm (945 words)

	The Hindu : The Lambton surprise
		Eventually, when Lambton died near Nagpur and that irascible martinet George Everest took over, de Penning resigned and the Madras surveyors threatened to follow his lead.
		Matters were sorted out in time and de Penning went to Calcutta to head the drawing and computation office where number crunchers like Radhanath Sikdar, whom de Penning had recruited, made the calculations necessary to make the survey meaningful.
		Travelling with Joshua de Penning as the survey moved west to Bangalore and then north to Hyderabad was his wife, Marie, from Madras, and their children.
	www.hindu.com /mp/2003/09/22/stories/2003092200160300.htm (468 words)

	Rediff Web Search
		Rosa Kutty prepares for a showdown with Jyotirmoyee Sikdar when the two clash in the 400 and 800...
		Tapan Sikdar (left) and Somen Mitra at the iftar.
		LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps users like Amit Sikdar discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.
	search.rediff.com /dirsrch/default.asp?MT=amit+sikdar&... (311 words)

	Dissertation Proposal -- The Politics of Native Friendship: Cross-Cultural Encounters at Centres of Knowledge in ...
		The field sciences in general depended on local knowledge, and thus on relationships of interaction, negotiation and even dependence with colonial others notionally absent from the public façade of early-nineteenth century science.
		Indians were also involved in permanent labour: in the General Trigonometrical Survey of India, computer Radhanath Sikdar and craftsman Mohsin Hussain were increasingly central to the activities conducted by George Everest.
		In the literature which such pursuits have left us, friendship is a recurrent theme, whether as a way of explaining native participation (the ‘Native Friendship’ regularly raised in Calcutta societies), or as a way of performing a cross-cultural relationship (the genuine friendships between Everest and Sikdar, or the Orientalist H.H. Wilson and Ramcomul Sen).
	rob.ifanything.org /friendship/dissprop.htm (668 words)

	July 1, 2004
		The presentation function to release the stamps was organized at a record 900 places in India.
		The stamps depict two of the greatest contributors to the survey - Radhanath Sikdar, Nain Singh and the theodolites and other instruments.
		The Great Arc, regarded as the longest measurement of the earth’s surface ever to have been attempted, was commenced from St Thomas Mount in Madras.
	www.stampsofindia.com /newssite/newspost/175.htm (1497 words)

	Great arc effort gets stamp of approval - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Speaking after receiving the album, Brig Ananth said the ceremony of the three stamps, were held at 900 places in India.
		Expressing his views on the Survey, Brig Ananth said, “although the pioneers of The Great Arc were Col William Lambten and Col Sir George Everest, the contributions of our Indian surveyors and explorers like Radhanath Sikdar and Nain Singh, who have been featured on the stamps are equally noteworthy”.
		He said in the days when there were no computers and calculators to carry out the computations for the mapping of The Great Arc which measures 2,400 miles, was a herculean effort.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun292004/s5.asp (306 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Bethune Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Begun with only 21 persons, the Society membership rose to 250 in 1860.
		In the published transactions of the period we find participation of many distinguished Bengal literati of the mid-nineteenth century among whom are Pundit iswar chandra vidyasagar, Ramchandra Mitra, Haramohan Chattopadhyaya, Radhanath Sikdar, Kishorichand Mitra, Raja Pratapchandra Singha, rajendralal mitra, Nabin Kristo Bose.
		Though short lived, the Bethune Society was successful in achieving its objects: it could help develop scientific outlook among the Bengalis and promote understanding and toleration between the Indians and the Europeans.
	banglapedia.org /HT/B_0435.HTM (533 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Niranjan Dahr: Vedanta & the Bengal Renaissance: Chapter 10
		This clash of ideas came in the life of Iswar Chandra with great potentialities.
		Prominent Derozians like Ramgopal Ghose, Dukshinaranjan Mukhopadhyaya, Russick Krishna Mullick and Radhanath Sikdar were among his most intimate friends.
		Vidyasagar became an enthusiastic member of the Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge and regularly attended all its meetings.
	www.autodidactproject.org /other/bengalren10.html (5293 words)

	SouthAsiaBiz: Hold Your Breath: Top ten Mountains of the World
		The Great Trigonometric Survey of India determined in 1852 that Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world and it was measured by Radhanath Sikdar, a Bengali mathematician and surveyor.
		Since then, it has become a dream for the climbers to climb the top of the ‘Roof of the World’.
		Former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Bajpayee proposed that the name of this mountain should be named after Radhanath Sikder.
	www.southasiabiz.com /2006/08/hold_your_breath_top_ten_mount.html (1398 words)

	Lunch With George! : Contest
		After whom was Mount Everest named, and what was this person's connection to the mountain?
		Peak XV was identified as the world's tallest peak by a computer named Radhanath Sikdar in 1852.
		He reporting his findings to the chief of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, surveyor General Sir Andrew Waugh.
	www.lunchwithgeorge.com /lwg_contest.html (255 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories
		The Department of Post released a set of three commemorative postage stamps and a miniature sheet on the ‘great arc’ today.
		According to a press note, the stamps were released on the Great Trigonometrically Survey and surveyors Nain Singh and Radhanath Sikdar at 900 outlets across the country.
		The occasion was celebrated jointly by the Haryana Geo-Spatial Data Centre, the Himachal Geo-spatial Data Centre and Punjab and Chandigarh Geo-spatial Data centre of the Survey of India here today, the press note added.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040629/cth1.htm (6460 words)

	Roots: The Roots of Bengal
		The losses of Akbar's Bengal army in Gaur will be found in my Áín translation, p.
		How extensively the Hindus were employed as revenue officers may be seen from the fact that the Arabic-Persian Shiqdár and Majmu'ahdár have become Bengali family names, generally spelt 'Sikdar' and 'Mozoomdar'.
		Radhanath Sikdar (1815-1870) discovers Peak XV on the Himalayas as the highest point on earth's surface
	sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1bengal.html (13471 words)

	Hindu Wisdom - Nature Worship
		However, in 1852 an Indian named Radhanath Sikdar was one of the first to compute that that peak XV was the highest point on Earth.
		When Radhanath told Colonel Waugh, the new SGI, Waugh immediately named it Everest after his predecessor and benefactor even though the peak had
		Of course, the racist British, keen to play down the scientific capabilities of Indians, did not mention that it was Raghanath Sikdar in Calcutta who had first realized the importance of peak XV.
	www.hinduwisdom.info /Nature_Worship.htm (11671 words)

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