Sumer Singh was called Sahibzada, prince, and Bābā, because of his direct lineage to the Bhalla clan, associated with Guru Amar Das.

For some time he also was the Mahant (now termed Jathedar) of the Takht Sri Patna Sahib.

Mahan Kosh lists Sumer Singh's works as including: Khalsa Shattak, Gurpad Prem Prakash, Khalsa Panchasika, Gurkeerat Kavitavali, Gurcharit Darpan, Prem Prabhakar, Brahmand Puran, Makke Madine Di Gosht, Sumer Bhushan.

[2] Valerie Ritter (2010) writes that, Ritter (2010) comments on the extrodinary life lived by Sumer Singh, Sumer Singh founded the Patna-Kavi-Samaj, at the request of Patna University students, where he mentored students on their poetry.

[3] Sumer Singh mentored and taught a poet, Ayodhya Prasad Upadhyay, who took the penname, nom-de-plume, Hariaudh from the inspiration of Sumer Singh's pen name, 'Sumer Hari'.