antireservation

adj — 2 senses

antireservation

adj

Etymology From anti- + reservation.

1

Opposing India's system of reserving seats in government and in higher educational institutions for certain underprivileged groups.

  • 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; [...]2016, Megha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict, →ISBN:
2

Opposing the confinement of Native Americans to Indian reservations.

  • Smohalla attracted groups of defiant, antireservation Indians to his community near Priest Rapids.1998, Barry Pritzker, Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples, →ISBN, page 354:

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