The caption reads: 'Women meet at the railway station with lamentations and greetings. In the bloody fighting after partition, thousands of homes were broken up, as Hindus migrated to India and Muslems from India fled into the new Islamic state of Pakistan. Women were abducted on both sides. Camps were set up for these lost, strayed or stolen wives, but some time often elapsed before they could be sorted out and claimed by their respective families. So reunions like the one photographed were sad affairs, with all participants recounting their misfortune at the top of their voices and bewailing the dead and missing.'