antireservation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ reservation

Adjective[edit]

antireservation (not comparable)

  1. Opposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.
    • 2016, Megha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict, →ISBN:
      From April onwards, however, the antireservation agitation and communal riots took place simultaneously. During that month, the antireservation agitation spread to Saraspur and Gomtipur in the industrial belt; [...]
  2. Opposing the confinement of Native Americans to Indian reservations.
    • 1998, Barry Pritzker, Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples, →ISBN, page 354:
      Smohalla attracted groups of defiant, antireservation Indians to his community near Priest Rapids.