Pius Malekandathil (born 1960)^[1] is an Indian historian and a priest of theSyro-Malabar Church.^[2] He is currently theProtosyncellus of theEparchy of Kothamangalam.^[3] He is a retired professor at the Centre for Historical Studies,Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.^[4]

He is a leading expert inmedieval history of India and theSaint Thomas Christians ofKerala.^[5][6]

His 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, andTanika Sarkar, 2016)^[10]
• India, the Portuguese and maritime interactions (co-edited by Lotika Varadarajan, Amar Farooqui, 2019)

• 20th-century Indian historians
• Syro-Malabar priests
• Academic staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University
• 1960 births
• Living people
• 21st-century Indian historians

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