The title of this book - Changing Worlds, Changing Nations - underlines the
transforming status of the discourse on nationalism and transnationalism. The
book focuses on how the realities and identities of people are influenced by the
changes taking place in the various dimensions of nation-states. The term
'transnationalism' sounds simplistic, yet it is not so explicit in nature and is
apparently enveloped in a myriad of confounding applications. Transnationalism,
as it is largely understood, is a concept that disrupts and scatters the idea of
centrality and periphery. It may be properly conceived as: a kind of
relationship between nation-states, a crossing of national borders, a
cultural/political interplay