ABSTRACT
This chapter takes stock of the many new tales that were written in the 19th century directly influenced by Bidyasundar and encouraged by its success. It breaks the structure of the story in these new books down to discover shared motifs and schemes. As the structure of the tales seems to suggest and as later scholars deduce, these tales spilled out of the success of Bidyasundar. Publishing houses of differing standards of production were tempted to publish different variants of similar tales because their popularity guaranteed sales. The chapter has two sections. The first describes the scheme and organisation of the tales, and the second tracks the publishing houses that were producing them in multiple copies. There is little to figure out how these tales were read, but their popularity was evident from the many editions and many publishing houses engaged in producing them. Commercial compulsions proved an overriding factor for all in the business of book publishing.
