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{{Short description|Indian soldier and frontier administrator (d. 2013)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_suffix =
| name = Tati Lego
| office = Administrative officer, Siang Frontier Division
| term_end = 1983
| death_date = April 2013
| awards = {{plainlist|
* [[Burma Star]]
* [[General Service Medal (1918)|General Service Medal]]
* Certificate of appreciation, [[Governor of Assam]] (1959)
}}
| module = {{Infobox military person
| embed = yes
| allegiance = {{plainlist|
* {{flag|British Raj}}
* {{flag|India}}
}}
| branch = [[British Indian Army]]
| rank = [[Subedar-major|Subedar-Major]]
| battles = [[Burma campaign]]
}}
}}

'''Tati Lego''' (died April 2013) was an [[Adi people|Adi]] soldier and frontier administrator from what is now [[Arunachal Pradesh]]. He fought in the [[Burma campaign]] as a [[Subedar-major|Subedar-Major]] in the [[British Indian Army]], earning the [[Burma Star]] and the [[General Service Medal (1918)|General Service Medal]].<ref name="warofficerolls">{{cite report |title=Burma Campaign Personnel Rolls (Junior Commissioned Officers) |publisher=War Office / India Office Records |type=Archival record}}</ref><ref name="awahon1945">{{cite journal |script-title=as:অসমীয়া যোদ্ধা আৰু ব্ৰহ্মদেশ অভিযান |trans-title=Assamese warriors and the Burma campaign |journal=Awahon |script-journal=as:আৱাহন |date=1945–46 |pages=40–45 |language=as}}</ref> After the war he became Political Interpreter in the Siang valley under [[Peter Loren Seton James]], the last British Political Officer of the [[Abor Hills]],<ref name="jamesdiary">{{cite report |author=P. L. S. James |title=Tour Diary of Mr PLS James, I. P. Assistant Political Officer Siang Valley Sub Agency, From August 1945-1946 |publisher=Arunachal Pradesh State Archives, NEFA Secretariat |location=Itanagar |date=1948 |id=File No. 2043/GA/95/48 |url=https://www.statearchivesarunachalpradesh.com/xmlui/handle/123456789/933}}</ref> and stayed on in the [[North-East Frontier Agency]] administration after the 1948 handover.<ref name="atimeslego">{{cite news |title=PI Tati Lego passes away |url=https://www.arunachaltimes.in/archives/apr13%2025.html |newspaper=The Arunachal Times |date=25 April 2013 |access-date=}}</ref>

When [[Tagin people|Tagin]] groups killed an Indian government party at [[1953 Achingmori incident|Achingmori in 1953]], resisting the extension of administration into their hills, Lego led the negotiations that brought the rebels back to terms.<ref name="nefareport1954">{{cite report |title=North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) Annual Report, 1954–55 |author=Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs |publisher=Government of India |location=New Delhi |date=1955}}</ref><ref name="dainik1953">{{cite news |script-title=as:সীমান্ত অঞ্চলত প্ৰশাসনৰ বিস্তাৰ |trans-title=Expansion of administration in the border region |newspaper=Dainik Asam |script-newspaper=as:দৈনিক অসম |date=12 March 1953 |page=3 |language=as}}</ref> Adviser K. H. Mehta wrote him a certificate of appreciation for the work, and the [[Government of India]] honoured him for it as well.<ref name="atimeslego"/>

Lego also worked to bring the Adi together as a single political community within India.<ref name="tayeng1964">{{cite book |last=Tayeng |first=D. C. |title=Abor Paharor Itihas aru Sanskriti |trans-title=History and Culture of the Abor Hills |year=1964 |publisher=Tribal Research Institute (Assam) |location=Dibrugarh |language=as}}</ref><ref name="tayeng1978">{{cite book |last=Tayeng |first=A. J. |title=Pasighat aru Siangor Itihas |trans-title=History of Pasighat and Siang |year=1978 |publisher=Directorate of Education |location=Itanagar |language=as}}</ref> He met the [[Naga National Council|Naga nationalist]], [[Zapu Phizo|Angami Zapu Phizo]] and respected what Phizo was trying to do for his people, but urged him to settle with [[New Delhi]] rather than fight it. Lego himself never joined any movement against the Indian state, holding that the hill peoples could not stand alone and were better off inside the Union with their own autonomy.<ref name="nnc1951">{{cite report |author=Naga National Council |title=Circular No. 7: Meeting with Frontier Representatives in Assam–Naga Hills Border Areas |publisher=NNC Secretariat |location=Kohima |date=c. 1951 |type=Duplicated mimeograph}}</ref><ref name="nnc1952">{{cite report |author=Naga National Council |title=Resolutions Adopted at Kohima Session (1952) |publisher=NNC Press |location=Kohima |date=1952}}</ref>

He oversaw construction of the Mebo–Dhola Road, received a certificate of appreciation from Governor [[Fazl Ali|Saiyid Fazl Ali]] in 1959, and retired in 1983.<ref name="atimeslego"/><ref name="assamgazette1959">{{cite report |title=Award of Certificate of Appreciation to JCO personnel serving in frontier administration |publisher=[[Government of Assam]] |work=Assam Gazette |date=1959 |at=Part IX, p. 14}}</ref>

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[[Category:2013 deaths]]
[[Category:People from East Siang district]]
[[Category:History of Arunachal Pradesh]]
[[Category:British Indian Army soldiers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]
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