 In the decade after 1856, Waugh's proposal was widely debated by the Royal Geographical Society and similar bodies.Other scholars of India put forward native names that they believed to be correct, such as Brian Houghton Hodgson's "Deva-dhunga" and Hermann Schlagintweit's "Gaurisankar".Everest himself objected to his name being used, as "the native of India" could not pronounce it and it could not be written in Hindi.