Rual Development: A Historical Bird's - Eye View

There is a well-developed theoretical foundation which shows that resource allocation decision making mechanisms unusually tend to be myopic and short-sighted. This Problem, on the one hand, fails to provide adequate retrospective insights and historical lessons into decision making processes and on the other hand, fails to have an acceptable level of foresight. Taking into account the relevance of the rural development in the nation’s destiny, historical knowledge provides a treasury of insight for the advancement of national development and provides huge intellectual capacities accessible to the policy makers and social planners. Following a comparative study of two historical documents, this article tries to unfold some historical path-breaking knowledge for rural development. This Knowledge secures sustainability of the national development enterprise. The article is concluded with the hope that relying on the historical knowledge introduces the ways to prevent reproduction of the nation’s development obstacles.