Muhammad Nisar
Abstract
Chapter 5, entitled “Muhammad Nisar: Soviet Indologist and a Victim of the Great Purge”, presents a short biographical sketch of Nisar, a Soviet academician, who also migrated from Afghanistan and became a citizen of the Soviet Union. Like many other foreigners residing in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, he too became a victim of Stalinist Repression.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Soviet and Russian History
Biographical and Historical Analysis
Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 83–85
- Publication date
- 16 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter