[1] He was also a member of the Kapurthala Council of State and one of the founder trustees of the Tribune Newspaper.
Woodside and aided by a Bengali Missionary Golaknath Chatterji, Harnam Singh converted to Christianity thus renouncing his rights for good.
In 1902 he and his wife were in London to attend the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, as representatives of the Christian community in India.
[3] In 1907, Harnam Singh was given the personal title of Raja (roughly equivalent to the modern British life peerage), and he was made a hereditary Raja in 1911, thus enabling him to found a separate branch of the Ahluwalia dynasty.
He was given the administration of his Awadh properties for his lifetime, a move which was objected by Jagatjit Singh but in vain.