Transnationalism : reconfigurations of past and present -- Education and transnationalism -- The British empire : an imaginary of dualities and contradictions -- Education in pre-colonial Sri Lanka : pre-conceptions and suppositions -- Colonial Sri Lanka : religion, sovereignty and the education of empire -- Movements of mind and body : a transnationalist story -- Re-imagining transnationalism : trans-spatiality and implications for teaching, learning and beyond