The son of a poor nobleman, the "khokhi taij" or "impoverished prince" Anand, Amar studied Mongolian, Manchu, and Classical Tibetan in the Khoshuu school.

From 1930 to 1932, he was chairman of the science committee, during which time he authored two books: The Tenth Anniversary and Scientific Production (1931) and On the Development of the Mongolian National Script (1933).

In the prologue, he wrote: "It is truly unbearably sad that the Mongol ethnicity, despite having since ancient times and especially in the time of Genghis Khan run a glorious path of development among the countries of Asia and Europe, should in these latter days have been divided into many parts, with some unable to protect and safeguard their ethnic roots, customs, land and property, revering a powerful foreign entity while not having any power or policy to carry out their own affairs or accomplish pertinent actions, not only subjecting themselves to others' authority but actually striving to accomplish the policies and interests of foreign entities.

Genden had resisted Soviet pressure to destroy Mongolia's Buddhist churches[2] and had publicly scolded Joseph Stalin at a Mongolian Embassy reception.

Although Amar was the new prime minister, Khorloogiin Choibalsan became Stalin's new favorite and, as head of the newly created Internal Affairs Ministry, was the de facto most powerful person in Mongolia.

[3] Choibalsan increased his power in May 1936 when he had the Internal Affairs Committee rules amended to facilitate the detention of high-ranking politicians without first consulting political superiors.

Shortly after becoming prime minister in 1936, Amar and Dansranbilegiin Dogsom, the chairman of the presidium of the Little Khural, aggravated Choibalsan and Moscow alike when they pardoned prisoners implicated in the Lkhümbe Affair in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the revolution.

"[4] Amar was powerless to prevent the large-scale purges that Choibalsan and NKVD advisers embedded within the interior ministry unleashed on the country from 1937 to 1939.

[5] On March 6, 1939, Luvsansharav denounced Amar at an enlarged meeting of the MPRP Central Committee, saying he "had helped anti-government plotters, opposed their arrest, and neglected the defense of the borders.

Ironically, while awaiting trial in Moscow, Amar was jailed with Luvsansharav, the very same person who had arrested him and who had also fallen victim to Choibalsan's purges shortly thereafter.