ABSTRACT
Adevelopment that beckons increasing attention in era of globalization concerns the enormous transnational movements of people for various reasons: in search of employment in the more prosperous industrialized or industrializing countries as guest workers or as immigrants, and as a result of forced displacements of people owing to civil wars and the pogroms of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Under the label "transnational movements" the author should ideally deal with three flows: the flow of people through transnational migrations; the flow of capital in present time of multinational capitalism; and the flow of information over vast distances in the context of modern developments in communication. Transnational nationalism is about the Indian diaspora's involvement in long-distance politics back home in India. It is aimed at maintaining and reinforcing the Hindu-Indian hyphenated identity of diasporic Indians. Various political parties in India solicit funds from their overseas diaspora and many members are affluent enough to make significant contributions.
