Department of History

Osama received his B.A. (Hons) from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where he majored in history, and an M.Phil. in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a historian of modern South Asia with a focus on print cultures, histories of knowledge, decoloniality, and post-colonial urban social transformation. His dissertation, titled “Bazaar Knowledge: print, place-making and historical memory in Lahore’s Urdu Bazaar” traces the formation, growth and evolution of the Urdu Bazaar in Lahore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.