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ChicagoImpart Encyclopedia of Art. "Zahid R Chaudhary." April 21, 2022. https://imp-art.org/articles/zahid-r-chaudhary/.
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MLA"Zahid R Chaudhary." Impart Encyclopedia of Art, Apr. 21, 2022, https://imp-art.org/articles/zahid-r-chaudhary/.
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HarvardImpart Encyclopedia of Art (2022) Zahid R Chaudhary. Available at: https://imp-art.org/articles/zahid-r-chaudhary/ (Accessed: 3 March 2026).
A scholar and historian, Zahid R Chaudhary specialises in postcolonial studies, photography and visual culture.
Chaudhury received his PhD from Cornell University and his thesis formed the basis of his first book, Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India (2012), an in-depth historical account of early colonial photography in India. His ongoing book projects include The Psychic Life of Evidence: Truth after Post-Facts and Impunity: Notes on a Global Tendency.
Chaudhury has been published in numerous journals, including October, Social Text, Cultural Critique, South Asia and Camera Obscura, as well as contributed to publications such as Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice (2018) and India/Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art (2018).
At the time of writing, Chaudhury lives and works in New Jersey, USA, where he is an associate professor of English at Princeton University.
First published: 21 April 2022
Bibliography
Minnesota University Press. “Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India.” Accessed July 16, 2021. https://minnesota.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5749/minnesota/9780816677481.001.0001/upso-9780816677481
Humanities Commons. “Zahid R Chaudhary.” Accessed July 16, 2021. https://hcommons.org/members/zrc/
Princeton University. “Zahid Chaudhary.” Accessed July 16, 2021. https://english.princeton.edu/people/zahid-r-chaudhary
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