In the narration of India's history South India's rich past is largely neglected. The story of India in our text books and treatises is by and large a story of the Aryavarta or the Indo-Gangetic plain. The story of the East, particularly the Northeast, meets the same fate at the hands of both Indian and Foreign, Western historians. Parakala Prabhakar and Mohan Guruswamy discuss various issues related to this sorry state of the Indian history research agenda.  Each region has a story to tell.  Each state should have it own archeological survey..