‘S’ will be the first part of the given sequence as ‘blazing rice’ is used in the context of ‘rice had caught fire and burst into flames’ in S1. ‘R’ will follow next as it further tells that young men also reached the spot being the part of “people of village”. It will be followed by ‘Q’ as ‘them’ refers to ‘young men and boys’ in R. It will then be followed by ‘P’ as the use of the transition word ‘then’ shows that after the young men, boys, women and active women and girl came, the older people and mothers with their babies also arrived. Hence, SRQP is the correct sequence. Thus, option (d) is correct.