The author says correctly that we had a different tradition of recording events and writing history. That is why the acheivements of non hindus like Emperor Asoke was not recorded by us. Till 1837, nobody knew who Asoke was; finally an official of Calcutta mint, James Princep, who was also a philologist dug out Asoke's history. Same is the case with the acheivents of Southt Indians. Puran was written by Brahmins of north India and it does not mention any acheivments of the southerners. It may be noted that more than 3100 years ago, gifts that Queen Sheba carried with her when she visited King Solomon, contained items of Indian origin and the names of these as available in the Old Testament are in Dravidian language because it was exported from South. The first Indian colony in South East Asia was establshed in Vietnam by a Tamilian Brahmin, Kaudinya by name, nearly 2000 years ago and Puran is silent on this. This surely corroborates the author's statement that we followed a different different system and tradition of writing history.
