SOAS Research Online

Williams, Richard David (2024) 'Epistemological Jugalbandī: Sound, Science, and the Supernatural in Colonial North India.' In: McMurray, Peter and Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha, (eds.), Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 134-155.

Williams, Richard David (2024) 'Music for Hunting: Animals, Aesthetics, and Adivāsīs in Rajput Culture.' In: Bangha, Imre and Stasik, Danuta, (eds.), Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 321-341.

Williams, Richard David (2023) ''There is no modesty or shame in this city': what Bengali Muslims heard in colonial Rangoon, c.1900.' In: Sykes, Jim and Byl, Julia, (eds.), Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 33-53.

Williams, Richard David (2023) The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Williams, Richard David (2023) 'Querying ‘Global’ Music History: Significant Geographies between Goswami Pannalal and Queen Victoria.' Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 54. pp. 9-20. (Forthcoming)

Williams, Richard David (2023) 'Review of: Burger, Maya / Cattoni, Nadia (Hg.): Early Modern India. Literatures and Images, Texts and Languages. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Library 2019. XXII, 333 S. m. Abb. 8°. € 46,90. ISBN 978-3-946742-45-6.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 117 (4-5). pp. 421-424.

Williams, Richard David (2022) 'Mannered Moods: Sound and Sense in Mewar Painting and Poetry.' In: Diamond, Debra and Khera, Dipti, (eds.), A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur. Washington, DC: Hirmer and Chicago University Press, pp. 41-51.

Williams, Richard David and Clift, Jack (2022) 'A Pilgrim Progressively Translated: John Bunyan in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali.' In: Booth, Marilyn and Savina, Claire, (eds.), Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 29-68. (Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire)

Williams, Richard David (2022) 'Salacious Songs: khemṭā dancers and lyricists between Rampur, Lucknow, and Calcutta.' International Journal of Islam in Asia, 3 (1/2). pp. 182-204.

Williams, Richard David (2022) 'Singing in tune with God: Bengali vaiṣṇava musical scholarship in the eighteenth century.' South Asian History and Culture, 13 (2). pp. 180-196.

Williams, Richard David (2021) 'The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947.' Cracow Indological Studies, 23 (1). pp. 197-217.

Williams, Richard David (2021) 'Sound, Text, and Image: Picturing Music through Ragamala.' In: Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th Century. London: Francesca Galloway, pp. 48-51.

O'Hanlon, Rosalind, Venkatkrishnan, Anand and Williams, Richard David (2020) 'Scribal service people in motion: Culture, power and the politics of mobility in India’s long eighteenth century, c. 1680–1820.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 57 (4). pp. 443-460.

Williams, Richard David (2020) 'Dreams, Songs, and Letters: sectarian networks and musical archives in eighteenth-century north India.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 57 (4). pp. 583-604.

Williams, Richard David (2020) 'Sounding Out the Divine: Musical Practice as Theology in Samāj Gāyan.' In: Flood, Gavin D., (ed.), The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 342-361.

Williams, Richard David and Mahmood, Rafay (2019) 'A Soundtrack for Reimagining Pakistan? Coke Studio, memory, and the music video.' BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 10 (2). pp. 111-128.

Williams, Richard David (2019) 'Playing the Spinal Chord: Tantric Musicology and Bengali Songs in the Nineteenth Century.' Journal of Hindu Studies, 12 (3). pp. 319-338.

Williams, Richard David (2019) 'Reflecting in the Vernacular: Translation and Transmission in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39 (1). pp. 96-110.

Williams, Richard David (2018) 'A Theology of Feeling: The Radhavallabhi Monsoon in the Eighteenth Century".' In: Rajamani, Imke, Pernau, Margrit and Schofield, Katherine Butler, (eds.), Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, pp. 71-96.

Williams, Richard David (2018) 'A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. By John Stratton Hawley. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp.xiv+438.).' History of Religions, 57 (4). pp. 446-449.

Williams, Richard David (2017) 'Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 27 (4). pp. 591-610.

Williams, Richard David (2017) '穆尔希达巴德的音乐——18世纪孟加拉地区的艺术家和赞助人 [Mu'erxidabade de Yinyue: 18 Shiji Mengjiala Diqu de Yishujia he Zanzhuren].' 亞非研究 = Yafei Yanjiu: Journal of Asian and African Studies, 11 (1). pp. 70-85.

Williams, Richard David (2016) 'Krishna's Neglected Responsibilities: Religious devotion and social critique in eighteenth-century North India.' Modern Asian Studies, 50 (5). pp. 1403-1440.

Williams, Richard David (2016) 'Music, Lyrics, and the Bengali Book: Hindustani Musicology in Calcutta, 1818–1905.' Music and Letters, 97 (3). pp. 465-495.

Williams, Richard David (2016) 'Review of PhD thesis, “Brahmans Beyond Nationalism, Muslims Beyond Dominance: A Hidden History of North Indian Classical Music’s Hinduization" by Justin Scarimbolo.' Dissertation Reviews .

Williams, Richard David (2014) 'Review of: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah. London: Hurst, 2014.' Chowkidar, 13 (6). pp. 136-137.