This volume is a tribute to the great service rendered to historiographical tradition by one of the most outstanding historians of our times, Prof. Dr. K.S. Mathew. His colleagues, friends, students and admirers all over the world have made use of this opportunity to express their solidarity with him by contributing scholarly articles, which make this volume a rich collection of research papers on Indo-European history, for which Prof. Mathew has spent his whole life-time and continues to do so. ‘The Portuguese’, ‘Indian Ocean’ and ‘European expansion’ form the three major thematic areas on which he concentrated his academic researches for more than three decades and hence, the felicitation volume has taken this wider thematic frame. Most of the articles are authored by renowned historians who are part of the new historiographical school, which tries to explode the various myths regarding the European expansion in the East and attempts to reconstruct the European activities in India in their right perspective, giving focus on their Indo-centric dimensions. About the Author An author/editor of a large number of important publications, Pius Malekandathil is a former Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His major publications include The Germans, the Portuguese and India (1999); Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India AD 1500-1663 (2001); Jornada of Dom Alexis Menezes: A Portuguese Account of the Sixteenth Century Malabar (2003); Maritime India: Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean (2010); The Mughals, the Portuguese and the Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India (2013); The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India (2016), and Maritime Malabar: Trade, Religion and Culture (2022). T. Jamal Mohammed secured a M.A. degree from Aligarh Muslim University, and Ph.D. from M.S. University, Baroda. He was the Principal of Mannaniya College of Arts & Science, Pangode, Trivandrum, and a Syndicate Member of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. He is the author of The Gujaratis (1990); Perspectives of Kerala Studies (2000) and Trading Communities in Kerala, Trivandrum (2000).