In India and abroad, attempts to write accurate history of India is an emerging trend. The proponents who speak for writing an accurate history claim that the existing history of India is distorted. However, it is unclear what brings about ‘accuracy’ to the accurate history which many want to write about. Such attempts are mostly undertaken by postcolonial historians to demonstrate that Indians also have sense of ‘accurate’ history which Orientals scholars’ thought was absent in India. However, does writing another ‘accurate history’ enable us to understand India’s past? Answering this question requires us to contrast ‘the past’ with ‘a history’ and carefully examine of Indian culture followed the path of history writing to reflect about its past. This project will re-examine texts like Rajavali Kathasara in Kannada and Rajabali in Bengali. It will then try to identify the difference between history writing and the way Indians saw their past. It will also discuss questions of when and how did Indians learn to talk about and write history.