Pius MalekandathilPius Malekandathil is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of The Mughals, the Portuguese and the Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India (2013); Maritime India: Trade, Reigion and Polity in the Indian Ocean (2010); and Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India (2001). He has also edited fourteen books including India, The Portuguese and Maritime Interactions (2 vols; 2019) and Jornada of Dom Alexis Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar (2003). His research interests lie in maritime history, urban history of medieval India, Indian Ocean studies, religion and society of South Asia, and history of trade. Jacket illustration: Ships on a Stormy Sea by Cornelis Verbeeck. Read More Read Less