While the fourth part was serialized in another monthly magazine Bichitra, with a slightly changed name Srikanta Chaturtha Parba.

The fourth was published as a book in 1933 with the short title Srikanta, and was acclaimed as the great work of Sarat Chandra.

[5] Set in sometime between late 19th-century to early 20th century,[6] the story occurs in different regions of British India — Bhagalpur, Patna, Rangoon, Sainthia (Birbhum) and Debanandapur (Hooghly).

Indranath loves and helps with money an outcast woman named Annadadidi, wife of a Romani snake-charmer.

[7] Srikanta gets acquainted with many strange people on board the ship bound for Rangoon, among whom are Abhaya, a young married woman, and her male companion named Rohini.

[3] The principle characters of the novel are:[7] The book features a large number of female characters− most of them based on women Sarat Chandra had known personally.

When Annada's husband died, this woman had sold her earrings to the local grocer with instruction that the money obtained be given to Sarat, and soon after that she had left her village permanently.

[1] Another character in the book is Abhaya, who begins a live in relationship with a man in defiance of the existing social norms, after being deserted by her husband.

This character is based on a woman Sarat Chandra had known in Rangoon, who lived in a locality inhabited by mechanics and artisans.

Her husband would periodically beat this woman, and yet out of a slavish chastity she would not leave him despite there being a man who loved her and who offered to rescue her from her plight.