WARDHA, a town and district of British India in the Nagpur division of the Central Provinces. They take their name from the Wardha river. The now prosperous town of Wardha was established on a treeless black soil plain at the old village of Palakwari in 1866 at the spot where the branch line to Warora was expected to take off. The population by 1872 had reached
3,56o; in 1931 it was 19,571.
The DISTRICT OF WARDHA was carved out of Nagpur in 1862.
The population has increased from 355,000 at the census of 1872 to 516,266 in 1931. There are cotton mills at Hinganghat and Pulgaon. The language is Marathi.