He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the author of Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (2010) and the edited monograph Anwar Jalal Shemza (2015). Dadi has co-edited Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (with Hammad Nasar) (2012); and Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading (with Salah Hassan) (2001). Dadi serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Archives of Asian Art; Bio-Scope: South Asian Screen Studies; and Art Journal (2007-2011). He serves as an advisor to the Hong Kong based organization Asia Art Archive, and is a board member of The Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. He was member of Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council in 2011 and 2014.