Background
Bahadur was born in Delhi, India, and received his Bachelor (1943) and Master of Arts (1945) in mathematics from University of Delhi.
Bahadur was born in Delhi, India, and received his Bachelor (1943) and Master of Arts (1945) in mathematics from University of Delhi.
He received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina under Herbert Robbins in 1950 after which he joined University of Chicago. He worked as a research statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta from 1956 to 1961. He spent the remainder of his academic career in the University of Chicago.
He held the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1968-1969) and was the 1974 Wald Lecturer of the IP Multimedia Subsystem.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.