In what way the concept of 'patriarchal bargain' be applied to the institution of marriage ? Comment. (Answer in 150 words)

- In what way the concept of 'patriarchal bargain' be applied to the institution of marriage ? Comment. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Kandiyoti's concept reads marriage as a negotiated settlement rather than as simple subordination.

Body

1. What the concept holds: Women strategise within constraints they cannot remove. Under what Kandiyoti called classic patriarchy, a woman trades autonomy and labour for security, respectability and eventual authority over other women.
2. Where it applies inside marriage: Patrilocal residence sets the terms. The young bride's deference is an investment repaid as the mother-in-law's command over the next daughter-in-law, which is why senior women police junior ones. Seclusion is the price of protection, dowry buys a match, and without property tolerating a husband's authority is insurance against desertion. Leela Dube traced how kinship prepares girls for these trades.
3. A verdict on the fit: It explains what domination models cannot: women's defence of the arrangement, and conflict among women rather than between the sexes. But where exit is impossible the language of bargaining flatters coercion. The bargain is now breaking as women's earnings, the 2005 coparcenary amendment and nuclearisation change its terms.

Conclusion
The instability of Indian marriage signals that the bargain's terms no longer pay.