Association and Positions

• Chief Cub of Mysore Scouts at a young age of 8 years in 1927. After the death of his father the Yuvaraja, he became the Chief Scout for many years.

• President of the Historical association of University of Mysore in 1937.

• He was the President of Kannada Sahitya Parishat from 1940-1941.

• Maharaja was the first president of the Philharmonia Concert Society and Philharmonia Orchestra in London in 1948.

• Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, London in 1937. 

• Maharaja founded Medtner Society in London in 1948 and got recorded the entire works of Russian Composer Nicolai Medtner (1880-1951) in 3 Albums. (61 works – opus numbers).

• Indian Board for Wild Life was constituted under the Union Ministry of Food & Agriculture on 04.04.1

 *The first session of the Indian Board for Wild Life was held at Mysore from the 20th November 1952 to 1st December 1952. 

*Dr. Punjab Rao Deshmukh, the Union Minister of Agriculture who delivered a speech at the Plenary Session of the Central Board of Wild Life at Mysore, on the 1st December 1952 had said:  

•  He was appointed as Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1961.

• He was appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama in 1961.  

• He co-founded 'Basava Samiti', Bangalore along with Sri. B.D. Jatti and others in 1964. 

• He was the first President of Vishva Hindu Parishat (VHP) in 1964.

• Maharaja carried on his family's tradition of providing Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with funds and scholarships for running the Institute and occasionally for its  expansion, when needed.

•  He was the first President of Vishva Hindu Parishat (VHP) in 1964.

  *The third meeting of the Vishva Hindu Parishad Executive Council was held at Mysore on May 27-28, 1965 in the Summer Palace of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore, the then Governor of Madras. The Maharaja, first President of the Parishad, was in the chair.  

• He was also the chancellor of various Universities like University of Mysore (1940-1964), Karnataka University (1956-1964), University of Madras (1964-1966), Annamalai University  (1964-1966) and others. 

•  Maharaja carried on his family's tradition of providing Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with funds and scholarships for running the Institute and occasionally for its expansion, when needed.