Question 1: “On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of different social groups,” says the author.
Solution. (i) The author mentions the two major religious groups of India—Hindus and Muslims—as the social groups predominant in Rameswaram. Yes, these groups were easily identifiable. The factors that demarcated these groups from one another were their dressing sense and the place they lived in.
