The circumstances in India until the East India Company's territorial possessions were taken over by the Crown in 1858 necessitated the declaration of martial law on a number of occasions. There were hostile powers like the Mahrattas threatening the safety and public order of the possessions; ...
Defence of India Act, (1915), legislation designed to give the government of British India special powers to deal with revolutionary and German-inspired threats during World War I (1914–18), especially in the Punjab. A special legal tribunal was set up
UNDECLARED MARTIAL LAW IN INDIA: AN ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE 34 VIS-À-VIS ARMED FORCES (SPECIAL POWER ACT), 1958Parvesh Kumar Rajput
Constitution and Extraconstitution: Emergency, Martial Law, and the Rule of Law in India and PakistanKalhan, Anil