They live in camps and have no right to work

> Seventy years after partition unleashed the largest mass migration in human history, Hindus are still moving from Pakistan to India > Tens of thousands languish in makeshift camps near the border with no legal right to work > Many have no choice but to toil illegally in the stone quarries near where they live because their movements are strictly controlled by the authorities > Most of the migrants to India come from Pakistan’s Sindh province. They take a four-hour train journey through the Thar desert to Jodhpur in the arid western state of Rajasthan > As they share the culture, food and language of Rajasthan it makes it easy for them to assimilate in their adopted homeland > They live in isolated camps, far from local communities and are treated with suspicion by authorities > Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has said it wants to make it easier for persecuted adherents of the faith to find refuge in India > Last year it changed the rules to allow immigrants to apply for citizenship in the state where they live, rather than having to go through the central government > Hindus from Pakistan qualify for a fast track to citizenship after seven years in the country. But bureaucratic delays have meant the process of getting it can take longer to complete > Many gave up and returned to Pakistan, disillusioned by life in India. They felt that worse than the poverty was the suspicion from authorities But some migrants admitted that even the increased scrutiny is worth tolerating > More than 15 million people were uprooted following India’s independence from Britain in 1947