The DataSource API currently includes the methods pushCreate, pushDestroy, and pushUpdate. These methods roughly correspond to add, remove, and set. Unfortunately there is no pushInsert to enable adding new items to the data source at a specific position. Adding such a method would be consistent with the existing add/remove/insert methods.
Shipped in R2 2017 - http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/data/datasource#methods-pushInsert