[2] He attended the Coronation of the King George V and Queen Mary, at Westminster Abbey, in London and served as Page-of-Honour to the King-Emperor at the Delhi Coronation Durbar in 1911.
[3] Singh succeeded on the death of his father on 14 April 1931 as Maharaja of Idar State and was installed on the gadi (throne) at Himmatnagar on 11 July 1931.
Singh also held the title of Colonel-in-Chief of Idar Sir Pratap Infantry from 1931 to 1954.
He was an outstanding all-round sportsman with varied interests of sports like - hunting, horse-racing, polo, tent-pegging and pig-sticking, cricket and football.
[2] The town of Himmatnagar, which served as the capital of Idar State, was renamed after him from Ahmadnagar by his father Daulat Singh in year 1912, who was then the heir-apparent to the throne of Idar.