Pardhis are a community of traditional hunters, who live a nomadic life, and hunt predominantly for meat. They also help farmers against crop raid by wild herbivores, cull man-eaters on behalf of communities and governments, and in the past helped royalty on hunting expeditions. They had an important role in ensuring food security when agriculture was deficit. One of the most socially excluded communities, the Pardhis were listed among the ‘criminal’ tribes in 1871 by the British and were denotified[1] only in 1952. But the nationalization of wild fauna by the Indian Government in 1972, made illegal the craft, culture and lifestyle of the Pardhis. No specific efforts for rehabilitation of the Pardhis were made by the Government of India post nationalization in 1972