Pius Malekandathil (born 1960)[1] is an Indian historian and a priest of the Syro-Malabar Church.[2] He is currently the Protosyncellus of the Eparchy of Kothamangalam.[3] He is a retired professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.[4]
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He is a leading expert in medieval history of India and the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala.[5][6]
Selected publications
editHis major works include:
- The Germans, the Portuguese and India (1999)
- Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663 (2001)[7]
- 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);[8]
- The Mughals, the Portuguese and the Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India (2013);
- Cities in Medieval India (co-edited with Yogesh Sharma, 2014).[9]
- Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power, and Knowledge. (co-edited with Joy L.K. Pachuau, and Tanika Sarkar, 2016)[10]
- India, the Portuguese and maritime interactions (co-edited by Lotika Varadarajan, Amar Farooqui, 2019)
References
edit- ^ "Malekandathil, Pius". id.loc.gov. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
- ^ "Pius Malekandathil's profile in Syro-Malabar Church website".
- ^ "Administration | Eparchy of Kothamangalam | Kothamangalam Diocese". KothamangalamDiocese. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ "Pius Malekandathil's profile at JNU".
- ^ "A Cross to pay Homage". The Times of India.
- ^ "jnu.academia.edu".
- ^ de Silva, Chandra R. (2003). "Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500–1663. By Pius Malekandathil. New Delhi: Manohar, 2001. 324 pp". The Journal of Asian Studies. 62 (1): 313–314. doi:10.2307/3096215. JSTOR 3096215.
- ^ Pati, George (2011). "Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Politics in the Indian Ocean. By Pius Malekandathil. Delhi, India: Primus Books, 2010. 211 pp. $64.00 (cloth)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 70 (2): 622–623. doi:10.1017/S0021911811000751. S2CID 163200357.
- ^ Hasan, Farhat (2016). "Book Review: Yogesh Sharma and Pius Malekandathil (eds), Cities in Medieval India". The Medieval History Journal. 19 (1): 164–166. doi:10.1177/0971945816636273. S2CID 163323704.
- ^ Frykenberg, Robert Eric (2018). "Book review: Pius Malekandathil, Joy L. K. Pachau and Tanika Sarkar (eds), Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge". Studies in History. 34 (2): 207–212. doi:10.1177/0257643018762941. S2CID 165542473.