The annual Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture was instituted by Social Science Baha to honour the seminal contribution of historian Mahesh Chandra Regmi to Nepali scholarship. The lecture series invites eminent scholars of the social sciences to present their work before a Kathmandu audience, and has now become a much-anticipated event in Nepal's academic calendar.

The inaugural Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture was delivered by Harka Gurung on 24 April, 2003, at the opening of the conference 'The Agenda of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy'. Dr Gurung’s lecture entitled 'Trident and Thunderbolt: Cultural Dynamics in Nepali Politics' was given in the presence of the late Mahesh Chandra Regmi himself who was the chief guest on the occasion. Unfortunately, that proved to be Regmi’s last public appearance. (Click here to read obituary.)