antireservation

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ reservation.

Adjective

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.