Pius Malekandathil

Fr. Dr. Pius Malekandathil
Occupation	Author Professor Scholar historian
Nationality	Indian
Education	Kerala University Pondicherry Central University (M.Phil. and PhD) Faculdade das Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (Portuguese language) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (Portuguese Paleography) Heidelberg University

Pius Malekandathil (born 1960) is an Indian historian and a priest of the Syro-Malabar Church. He is currently the Protosyncellus of the Eparchy of Kothamangalam. He is a retired professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

He is a leading expert in medieval history of India and the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala.

Selected publications

His major works include:

• The Germans, the Portuguese and India (1999)
• Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663 (2001)
• 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);
• The Mughals, the Portuguese and the Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India (2013);
• Cities in Medieval India (co-edited with Yogesh Sharma, 2014).
• Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power, and Knowledge. (co-edited with Joy L.K. Pachuau, and Tanika Sarkar, 2016)
• India, the Portuguese and maritime interactions (co-edited by Lotika Varadarajan, Amar Farooqui, 2019)