Ravinder Reddy

Ravinder (Ravi) Reddy, MD, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, is a psychiatrist, author and teacher.

During his academic career, he primarily worked with patients suffering from schizophrenia as well as the homeless. For several years, he directed the training of a new generation of psychiatrists.

Alongside his medical career, Ravi has been deeply interested in many aspects of Indian art. Over the course of four decades, he has studied Kushan numismatics, medieval Shaivaite sculpture, early maps depicting the Indian subcontinent, and arms and armour of the region. For him, Indic arms and armour reflect a unique convergence of the martial culture, the high arts, history, and technical mastery of metal work. His new project, forthcoming as a book in a year or two, is examining sacred imagery on functional objects and in the arts.