Pius Malekandathil

Pius Malekandathil (born 1960)^[1] is an Indian historian and a priest of the Syro-Malabar Church.^[2] He is a Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.^[3]

He is a leading expert in medieval history of India and the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala.^[4][5]

Selected publications[]

His major works include:

• The Germans, the Portuguese and India (1999)
• Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663 (2001)^[6]
• Jornada of Dom Alexis de Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar (Antonio de Gouvea, translated and edited 2003)
• Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity, the Indian Ocean (2010);^[7]
• The Mughals, the Portuguese and the Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India (2013);
• Cities in Medieval India (co-edited with Yogesh Sharma, 2014).^[8]
• Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power, and Knowledge. (co-edited with Joy L.K. Pachuau, and Tanika Sarkar, 2016)^[9]
• India, the Portuguese and maritime interactions (co-edited by Lotika Varadarajan, Amar Farooqui, 2019)

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