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The Indian Journal of English Studies (IJES), published annually since 1940, publishes refereed articles of the members of AESI as well as those of renowned scholars and authors. Since the Indian Journal of English Studies is the official organ of the Indian Association for English Studies, it is logical to suppose that the Journal should date from a time later than the founding of the Association; but in actual fact the Journal is older than the Association, though not under that name. The All India English Teachers' Conference was, to quote the words of its first President, Late Prof. Amarnath Jha, “a happy idea of Professor N.K. Shindhanta's”. It held its session in Lucknow in December , 1941, with only eighteen delegates ,prominent among whom were Prof. Amarnath Jha(President), Professor N.K. Sidhanta (Secretary) , Mr. R.R. Shreshta (Local Secretary and Editor), Dr. Mahmood Hassan and Mr. P.K. Guha of Dacca, Prof. M. M. Bhattacharjee (Calcutta) and Prof. S. Pandey, the famous Shakespeare scholar of Allahabad. The proceedings of that Conference, compiled and edited by the late Mr. R.R. Shrestha of Lucknow, printed all the papers in their entirety. It also carried an Editorial, and so it may be hailed as the first number of the Indian Journal of English Studies.