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Dr. Mohd. Osama

Assistant Professor

Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking

Institute of Management

Biography

Mohd Osama has a PhD in Political Science from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He works on South Asian politics with a special focus on India. His work engages with methodologies ranging from large-scale administrative data analysis to ethnography. Before joining JKLU, he worked as a guest faculty and teaching fellow at Jamia Millia Islamia University and Ashoka University.

Osama’s research journey extends beyond academia, as evidenced by his roles as a researcher and consultant for prominent organisations such as NDTV, The Hindu Centre of Politics and Public Policy, and the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study on India (UPIASI). He has worked on research topics ranging from political representation to voting behaviour and minority studies.

From observing Muslim voters in Madhya Pradesh to interviewing political leaders in Uttar Pradesh and Hyderabad, his fieldwork experiences inform his publications. His research is published in peer-reviewed international and national journals, newspapers, and online platforms. Fieldwork is integral to Osama’s research methodology, as demonstrated by his ethnographic inquiries into various aspects of Indian politics.

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Education

Jamia Millia Islamia

  • Department of Political Science, 2024

    Ph.D., Political Science

  • Department of Political Science, 2014-16 (Gold Medal)

    M.A.

  • Voting Behavior
  • Party Politics
  • Political Representation and Participation
  • Ethnographic Research

  • Book Chapter (forthcoming, 2025): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), with Prof. Adnan Farooqui, in the Routledge Companion of Indian Political Parties.

  • Presented a paper titled, “National Aspirations of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party and its everyday mediation” at the conference “The Emergence of Regional Political Parties in India: A Move Towards Healthy Democracy” organized by the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur on the 27h March 2024.
  • Presented two papers at the 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) conference held in Chicago, Illinois, USA: “How a populist remains in politics: a case study of an Indian Muslim politician” on the 13th of April 2023, and “An Ethnographic Exploration of the Muslim Vote in India” on the 15th of April 2023.
  • Presented a paper titled “How a populist remains in politics: a case study of an Indian Muslim politician” at the conference “Nation at 75: Society and Citizens in Contemporary India” organized by the Centre for the Dalit and Minority Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, on 14th March 2023.
  • Presented a paper titled “Changing contours of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen” with Dr. Adnan Farooqui at the conference on India’s Political Parties organized by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) on 22nd December 2022.
  • Presented a working paper, “How a populist remains in politics: a case study of an Indian Muslim politician,” on 20th April at the 2021 BASAS conference, organized by the University of Edinburgh.
  • Participated in the workshop on “Democracy and Minority Rights” organized by the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, from 29 August to 02 September 2016.
  • Participated in MHRD-GIAN Course on “Quantitative Approaches in the Social Sciences: Survey, Experiment and Content Analysis” from 27th March to 31st March 2017.
  • Participated in the Summer Workshop on “Analyzing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics” organized by Lokniti-CSDS, held in Bengaluru from 10th July 2017 to 22nd July 2017.
  • Participated in a one-day "Violence & Non-Violence" workshop with Faisal Devji (Oxford University), organized by the Department of Sociology SAU, as a part of contributions to contemporary knowledge 2017 on 25th October 2017.
  • Participated in a Program, as a Discussant, organized by Studio Adda on the theme- “Elections 2017- Is the Voter angry or happy?”

  • Critical Thinking and Storytelling
  • Critical Thinking for Decisions at the Workplace
  • Political Branding: Designing for Democracy

  • Critical Thinking
  • Political Branding/Marketing
  • Indian Politics
  • Electoral Politics
  • Political Representation
  • Research Methods

Professional Positions

  • Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies of Plural Societies (CSPS), New Delhi.
  • Research Assistant on a project on UP’s panchayat politics at Harvard University.
  • Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Ashoka University.
  • Guest Faculty, Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia.
  • Research Assistant to Dr. Eswaran Sridharan, at UPIASI-CASI-University of Pennsylvania, for his research on “The Political Economy of the Middle Classes in Liberalizing India.”
  • Research Assistant at Centre de Sciences Humaines, under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Gravel, Director of CSH, and Dr. Julien Levesque, in the framework of the research project “Prosopography of Muslim Leadership in India.”
  • Consultant with Misaal (Centre for Equity Studies).
  • Public Policy Scholar at The Hindu Centre of Politics and Public Policy; the deliverable was the comprehensive report: The phenomenon of political dynasties among the Muslim legislators of Uttar Pradesh.
  • Researcher in Dr Prannoy Roy's Election team in NDTV, for the book “The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections” by Prannoy Roy and Dorab R. Sopariwala.
  • Research Assistant with Sudha Narayanan from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR).

  • Junior Research Fellowship, UGC
  • Junior Research Fellowship, UGC
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