Dawn broke gently over the dense canopy of Nagarhole, a Tiger reserve in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, where the forest is alive with the calls of hornbills and the rustle of wild elephants. Beneath the trees, around a simmering pot of rice and lentils, about 150 Jenu Kurubas, the honey-gathering people of southern India, were sharing their communal meal back on the ancestral land they had been forced to leave decades ago. For a fleeting moment, it felt like homecoming.