diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index e8ccdd08d0566137ba77ed7540337deed6606ff4..68baf911190cd8a1a1384c0f689cc6087b3e710d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 - Mike Miller
 - Kai Torben Ohlhus
 - Abhinav Tripathi
+- Karthikeyan R
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1f9faf5bd344ad73525cfec12d940c6356884293..70b6fcdffa1e671cac04a6de1410cde0418c6e9d 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 - New command `pythonic` to get information about the package.
+- Support for nested modules.
 
 ### Changed
 - Use system Python 3 interpreter by default.
diff --git a/inst/@py/subsref.m b/inst/@py/subsref.m
index 9316b670a9ef3a8ca853bd696adc6b7fb002a284..b4c0b7e1ea88565c64c01c71e80d856b408ae887 100644
--- a/inst/@py/subsref.m
+++ b/inst/@py/subsref.m
@@ -43,20 +43,29 @@ function varargout = subsref (x, idx)
     error ("py: invalid indexing type");
   endif
 
+  used_idx = 0;
+
   if (type == "." && ((numel (idx) == 1) || (idx(2).type != ".")))
     try
+      used_idx =1;
       y = pyeval (subs);
     catch
       y = pycall ("__import__", subs);
     end_try_catch
   else
-    y = pycall ("__import__", subs);
+    for i = length(idx):-1:1
+      try
+        y = pycall ("__import__", pyargs ("name",strjoin({idx(1:i).subs},"."),"fromlist","['']"));
+        used_idx = i;
+        break;
+      end
+    endfor
   endif
-
-  if (numel (idx) > 1)
-    y = subsref (y, idx(2:end));
+  
+  if (numel (idx) - used_idx > 0)
+    y = subsref (y, idx(used_idx + 1:end));
   endif
-
+  
   ## If the *last* indexing operation is ".name", and the object returned
   ## is a Python callable, then call it with no arguments to be compatible
   ## with how Octave functions are evaluated.
diff --git a/inst/@pyobject/subsref.m b/inst/@pyobject/subsref.m
index 5b5ae11798df32ef60c7c23f7610a7e5cb7f577d..a214ae3ca10be44d608a1c9331d74fea4803a031 100644
--- a/inst/@pyobject/subsref.m
+++ b/inst/@pyobject/subsref.m
@@ -292,3 +292,14 @@ endfunction
 %! % multiple return values: not enough outputs
 %! f = pyeval ("lambda: (1, 2, 3)");
 %! [a, b] = f ();
+
+%!test
+%! % support nested modules
+%! a = py.curses.ascii.isblank('4');
+%! assert (a, false)
+
+%!test
+%! % support nested modules (Chain)
+%! dom3 = py.xml.dom.minidom.parseString("<p>data</p>");
+%! f = dom3.documentElement.tagName;
+%! assert (char(f), 'p')
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