Dilli Raman Regmi (Nepali: डिल्लीरमण रेग्मी) (17 December 1913 – 30 August 2001) was a scholar, iconic political figure and academician of Nepal.
Dilli Raman Regmi started his political life when working as a volunteer during the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.
From 1940 Regmi became the political-in charge of a newly formed organization called Akhil Nepal Barga Mahasabha.
With many of his coded letters intercepted by the British and sent to the Ranas he could not enter Nepal, thus, he lived in exile in India from 1940.
In this period Regmi came into contacts apart from Subash Chandra Bose with Indian leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Rajendra Prasad[3] and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai.
[4] In prison, communist leader Man Mohan Adhikari and other jailed activists used to take classes on Marxism from him.
Regmi was a follower of the Gandhian philosophy of no violence, he was one of the pioneers of the Democratic Movement in Nepal.
He played a leading role in the restoration of democracy in Nepal through non-violence against the Rana Regime and later the party-less Panchayat system.
An entry of his name can be found in the "Journal of the Bihar Research Society", Volume 24, 1938 - "1936 - Pandit Dilliramanji, M.A., Dhokatola, Kathmandu, Nepal.
His collection of books, old photos, and other items are preserved by the Dilli Raman Regmi-Kalyani Regmi Memorial Library Development Board and they are available for research and academic purposes.