90 SOCIAL SCIENTIST My discussion has concentrated more on the agricultural labourer households because of the interlinkage that I wanted to study between the land question and the condition of women. The land reform measures after 1977 had concentrated mainly on improving the status of the agricultural labourers. In this process of reorganisation there did exist the possibility of bringing about major changes in the status of women. But as I have tried to show in this article, opportunities were lost and in fact new forms of discrimination against women have emerged. The issue of women's control over resources as independent citizens has been sidelined if not actually weakened because possibilities for intervention did, and continue to exist. Even within progressive policies and reform women are the casualty. So it is apparent that the interventions of the women's movement have to address fundamental issues more urgently than peripheral or subsidiary issues.