This paper seeksDelhi \i to analyseRajput \i the politico-cultural legacy of the RajputRajput \i dynasties, that is, the TomarasTomaras \i and ChauhansChauhans \i, and delve into the concomitants of that legacy with respect to the public memory of those dynasties in the early medieval period. Alongside, this paper shall also strive to unravel the various threads of continuityContinuity \i through a phase of manifest historical flux which characterizes this age, and the period soon thereafter. It has long been known that a dyadic interplay of continuity and change animates much of the progression of history between each historic age, as well as from one historic age to another. As such, under Rajput suzerainty, initially under the Tomar pioneers, the Early MedievalEarly medieval \i site of DelhiDelhi \i had evolved a form of political cultureCulture \i which continued to thrive unabated under its subsequent Chauhan conquerors. With the fall of the Chauhans, the GhuridGhurid \i victory, and the subsequent foundation of a nascent Delhi SultanateDelhi sultanate" \i, this process came to a cataclysmic transformative stage. The new rulers introduced into the city, and by extension, into the sub-continental land mass not merely a new ruling class and ethno-religious element, but an alternative system of political conventions. Nevertheless, the rupture was hardly a complete one; be it due to exigencies of governance or for other reasons to be noted, the new ruling class found itself compelled to confirm to the older IndicIndic \i Rajput political tradition time and again, conspicuously or otherwise, propelled by the potent force of the public memory of the older Rajput sovereigns and their politico-cultural traditions. This process shall be sought to be studied through the Royal monuments, which in themselves are strongly charged discursive instruments of royal authority, and through contemporary and near contemporary coinage, which are identical signifiers of the kingly ideological discourse. However, alongside such sources as emanate from the elite matrix, the relatively popular legendsLegends in wider circulation among masses should also be utilized to show how the public memory of these rulers was preserved, and in turn shaped the turn of events.