 Her father, Sir Zulfiqar, belonged to a collateral branch of the ruling family of Malerkotla princely state in Punjab.Her mother, Mahmuda Sultan, was the daughter of Nawab Allauddin Ahmed Khan, Nawab of Loharu.Qudsia was married in 1929, to Nawab Aizaz Rasul, the "taluqdar" (landowner) of Sandila in Hardoi district of what was then Oudh (now a part of Uttar Pradesh.