HINGANGHAT, a town of British India in the Wardha dis trict of the Central Provinces, 21 miles S.W. of Wardha, on the railway to Chanda. Pop. (1931) 22,601. It has given its name to one of the best known indigenous cotton staples in India. It is a flourishing place with two cotton mills and several presses and ginning factories. The new town is well laid out with broad streets and there are many prosperous Marwari traders.