Pius Malekandathil (born 1960) is an Indian historian and a priest of the
Syro-Malabar Church
lat, Ecclesia Syrorum-Malabarensium mal, മലബാറിലെ സുറിയാനി സഭ
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. He is a professor at the Centre for Historical Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...
,
New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House ...
.
He is a leading expert in
medieval history of India and the
Saint Thomas Christians
The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, ''Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani'', ''Malankara Nasrani'', or ''Nasrani Mappila'', are an ethno-religious
An ethnoreligious group (or an ethno-religious group) is a grouping of ...
of
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
.
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
Antonio de Gouvea, O.E.S.A. (1575 – 18 August 1628) was a diplomat in the service of Habsburg Spain, who served as ambassador (envoy) to Safavid Iran between 1602 and 1613. An Augustinian Portuguese missionary by origin, during his service a ...
, translated and edited 2003)
Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity, the Indian Ocean(2010);
(2013);
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ttps://www.amazon.in/Cities-Medieval-India-Yogesh-Sharma/dp/9380607997 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
Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India based at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu ...
, 2016)
(co-edited by Lotika Varadarajan, Amar Farooqui, 2019)
References
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20th-century Indian historians
Syro-Malabar priests
Jawaharlal Nehru University faculty
1960 births
Living people
21st-century Indian historians