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After the partition of British India in 1947 many Hindu and Muslim families left their respective homes to settle down in the newly created states. Political agitation in the preceding decades had helped to produce the feeling that both nations - Hindus and Muslims - needed their own homeland to thrive. Until today this so called “two-nation theory” is perpetuated in many South Asian countries. This documentary portrays the life of Pakistani Hindus who left their homeland due to alienation, unemployment, and religious prosecution. In search for a better life they reach India where they realize they are not treated as lost, fellow Hindu brothers, but as unwelcome Pakistani intruders.
The visual material derives from fieldwork in Rajasthan, India as part of a long-term research project on Hindus in Pakistan.
The film is produced by Being in the World Production.
Being in the World Production is a project by Juergen Schaflechner.