diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst b/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class.rst
similarity index 50%
rename from docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
rename to docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class.rst
index 6676c672b20..a16cd0d7305 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class.rst
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 .. currentmodule:: {{ module }}
 
 .. autoclass:: {{ objname }}
+
+..
+   Don't include the methods or attributes sections, numpydoc adds them for us instead.
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst b/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index a9c9bd2b650..00000000000
--- a/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-{% extends "!autosummary/class.rst" %}
-
-{% block methods %}
-{% if methods %}
-
-..
-   HACK -- the point here is that we don't want this to appear in the output, but the autosummary should still generate the pages.
-   .. autosummary::
-      :toctree:
-      {% for item in all_methods %}
-      {%- if not item.startswith('_') or item in ['__call__'] %}
-      {{ name }}.{{ item }}
-      {%- endif -%}
-      {%- endfor %}
-
-{% endif %}
-{% endblock %}
-
-{% block attributes %}
-{% if attributes %}
-
-..
-   HACK -- the point here is that we don't want this to appear in the output, but the autosummary should still generate the pages.
-   .. autosummary::
-      :toctree:
-      {% for item in all_attributes %}
-      {%- if not item.startswith('_') %}
-      {{ name }}.{{ item }}
-      {%- endif -%}
-      {%- endfor %}
-
-{% endif %}
-{% endblock %}
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/dataframe.rst b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/dataframe.rst
index 642996f9379..a8f3edf5a04 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/dataframe.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/dataframe.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Constructor
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
 
    DataFrame
 
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/extension_dtypes.rst b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/extension_dtypes.rst
index b470df4aa00..daccb01b737 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/extension_dtypes.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/extension_dtypes.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ cudf.CategoricalDtype
 =====================
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    CategoricalDtype
 
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ cudf.Decimal32Dtype
 ===================
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    Decimal32Dtype
 
@@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ cudf.Decimal64Dtype
 ===================
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    Decimal64Dtype
 
@@ -99,7 +96,6 @@ cudf.Decimal128Dtype
 ====================
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    Decimal128Dtype
 
@@ -128,7 +124,6 @@ cudf.ListDtype
 ==============
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    ListDtype
 
@@ -154,7 +149,6 @@ cudf.StructDtype
 ================
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    StructDtype
 
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/index_objects.rst b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/index_objects.rst
index a6a23d189e9..013eaf29a56 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/index_objects.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/index_objects.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ used before calling these methods directly.**
 
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
 
    Index
 
@@ -162,9 +161,13 @@ Numeric Index
 -------------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    RangeIndex
+   RangeIndex.start
+   RangeIndex.stop
+   RangeIndex.step
+   RangeIndex.to_numpy
+   RangeIndex.to_arrow
    Int64Index
    UInt64Index
    Float64Index
@@ -175,7 +178,6 @@ CategoricalIndex
 ----------------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    CategoricalIndex
 
@@ -200,7 +202,6 @@ IntervalIndex
 -------------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    IntervalIndex
 
@@ -219,7 +220,6 @@ MultiIndex
 ----------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    MultiIndex
 
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ MultiIndex components
 
    MultiIndex.to_frame
    MultiIndex.droplevel
+   MultiIndex.swaplevel
 
 MultiIndex selecting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -265,7 +266,6 @@ DatetimeIndex
 -------------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    DatetimeIndex
 
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ Time-specific operations
    DatetimeIndex.round
    DatetimeIndex.ceil
    DatetimeIndex.floor
+   DatetimeIndex.tz_convert
    DatetimeIndex.tz_localize
 
 Conversion
@@ -313,7 +314,6 @@ TimedeltaIndex
 --------------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
 
    TimedeltaIndex
 
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/io.rst b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/io.rst
index 05c0cc82e62..417970715f8 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/io.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/io.rst
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ Parquet
    read_parquet
    DataFrame.to_parquet
    cudf.io.parquet.read_parquet_metadata
-   :template: autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
-
    cudf.io.parquet.ParquetDatasetWriter
    cudf.io.parquet.ParquetDatasetWriter.close
    cudf.io.parquet.ParquetDatasetWriter.write_table
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/series.rst b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/series.rst
index 8bab649f079..ebfc1e3f5d1 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/series.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/series.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Constructor
 -----------
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
 
    Series
 
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/subword_tokenize.rst b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/subword_tokenize.rst
index 80d77ebcde2..cd240fe4db4 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/subword_tokenize.rst
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/api_docs/subword_tokenize.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Constructor
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 .. autosummary::
    :toctree: api/
-   :template: autosummary/class_with_autosummary.rst
 
    SubwordTokenizer
    SubwordTokenizer.__call__
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/conf.py b/docs/cudf/source/conf.py
index f9982c69e1b..03b1bb7039b 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/conf.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 from docutils.nodes import Text
 from sphinx.addnodes import pending_xref
 
+# -- Custom Extensions ----------------------------------------------------
 sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("./_ext"))
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
@@ -52,9 +53,6 @@
 
 copybutton_prompt_text = ">>> "
 autosummary_generate = True
-ipython_mplbackend = "str"
-
-html_use_modindex = True
 
 # Enable automatic generation of systematic, namespaced labels for sections
 myst_heading_anchors = 2
@@ -100,9 +98,6 @@
 # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
 pygments_style = "sphinx"
 
-# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
-todo_include_todos = False
-
 html_theme_options = {
     "external_links": [],
     # https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/issues/1220
@@ -209,14 +204,12 @@
 
 # Config numpydoc
 numpydoc_show_inherited_class_members = {
-    "cudf.core.dtypes.CategoricalDtype": False,
-    "cudf.core.dtypes.Decimal32Dtype": False,
-    "cudf.core.dtypes.Decimal64Dtype": False,
-    "cudf.core.dtypes.Decimal128Dtype": False,
-    "cudf.core.dtypes.ListDtype": False,
-    "cudf.core.dtypes.StructDtype": False,
+    # option_context inherits undocumented members from the parent class
     "cudf.option_context": False,
 }
+
+# Rely on toctrees generated from autosummary on each of the pages we define
+# rather than the autosummaries on the numpydoc auto-generated class pages.
 numpydoc_class_members_toctree = False
 numpydoc_attributes_as_param_list = False
 
@@ -229,8 +222,6 @@
     "cupy.core.core.ndarray": ("cupy.ndarray", "cupy.ndarray"),
 }
 
-_internal_names_to_ignore = {"cudf.core.column.string.StringColumn"}
-
 
 def resolve_aliases(app, doctree):
     pending_xrefs = doctree.traverse(condition=pending_xref)
@@ -254,26 +245,7 @@ def ignore_internal_references(app, env, node, contnode):
         # use `cudf.Index`
         node["reftarget"] = "cudf.Index"
         return contnode
-    elif name is not None and name in _internal_names_to_ignore:
-        node["reftarget"] = ""
-        return contnode
-
-
-def process_class_docstrings(app, what, name, obj, options, lines):
-    """
-    For those classes for which we use ::
-    :template: autosummary/class_without_autosummary.rst
-    the documented attributes/methods have to be listed in the class
-    docstring. However, if one of those lists is empty, we use 'None',
-    which then generates warnings in sphinx / ugly html output.
-    This "autodoc-process-docstring" event connector removes that part
-    from the processed docstring.
-    """
-    if what == "class":
-        if name in {"cudf.RangeIndex", "cudf.Int64Index", "cudf.UInt64Index", "cudf.Float64Index", "cudf.CategoricalIndex", "cudf.IntervalIndex", "cudf.MultiIndex", "cudf.DatetimeIndex", "cudf.TimedeltaIndex", "cudf.TimedeltaIndex"}:
-
-            cut_index = lines.index('.. rubric:: Attributes')
-            lines[:] = lines[:cut_index]
+    return None
 
 
 nitpick_ignore = [
@@ -289,4 +261,3 @@ def setup(app):
     app.add_js_file("https://docs.rapids.ai/assets/js/custom.js", loading_method="defer")
     app.connect("doctree-read", resolve_aliases)
     app.connect("missing-reference", ignore_internal_references)
-    app.connect("autodoc-process-docstring", process_class_docstrings)
diff --git a/docs/cudf/source/developer_guide/documentation.md b/docs/cudf/source/developer_guide/documentation.md
index 187934cd274..26557de917a 100644
--- a/docs/cudf/source/developer_guide/documentation.md
+++ b/docs/cudf/source/developer_guide/documentation.md
@@ -121,6 +121,35 @@ while still matching the pandas layout as closely as possible.
 When adding a new API, developers simply have to add the API to the appropriate page.
 Adding the name of the function to the appropriate autosummary list is sufficient for it to be documented.
 
+### Documenting classes
+
+Python classes and the Sphinx plugins used in RAPIDS interact in nontrivial ways.
+`autosummary`'s default page generated for a class uses [`autodoc`](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/autodoc.html) to automatically detect and document all methods of a class.
+That means that in addition to the manually created `autosummary` pages where class methods are grouped into sections of related features, there is another page for each class where all the methods of that class are automatically summarized in a table for quick access.
+However, we also use the [`numpydoc`](https://numpydoc.readthedocs.io/) extension, which offers the same feature.
+We use both in order to match the contents and style of the pandas documentation as closely as possible.
+
+pandas is also particular about what information is included in a class's documentation.
+While the documentation pages for the major user-facing classes like `DataFrame`, `Series`, and `Index` contain all APIs, less visible classes or subclasses (such as subclasses of `Index`) only include the methods that are specific to those subclasses.
+For example, {py:class}`cudf.CategoricalIndex` only includes `codes` and `categories` on its page, not the entire set of `Index` functionality.
+
+To accommodate these requirements, we take the following approach:
+1. The default `autosummary` template for classes is overridden with a [simpler template that does not generate method or attribute documentation](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/main/docs/cudf/source/_templates/autosummary/class.rst). In other words, we disable `autosummary`'s generation of Methods and Attributes lists.
+2. We rely on `numpydoc` entirely for the classes that need their entire APIs listed (`DataFrame`/`Series`/etc). `numpydoc` will automatically populate Methods and Attributes section if (and only if) they are not already defined in the class's docstring.
+3. For classes that should only include a subset of APIs, we include those explicitly in the class's documentation. When those lists exist, `numpydoc` will not override them. If either the Methods or Attributes section should be empty, that section must still be included but should simply contain "None". For example, the class documentation for `CategoricalIndex` could include something like the following:
+
+```
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    codes
+    categories
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
+```
+
 ## Comparing to pandas
 
 cuDF aims to provide a pandas-like experience.
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/core/dtypes.py b/python/cudf/cudf/core/dtypes.py
index 4acdc2431f8..a83c1f7b3c9 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/core/dtypes.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/core/dtypes.py
@@ -144,6 +144,16 @@ class CategoricalDtype(_BaseDtype):
         when used in operations that combine categoricals, e.g. astype, and
         will resolve to False if there is no existing ordered to maintain.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    categories
+    ordered
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    from_pandas
+    to_pandas
+
     Examples
     --------
     >>> import cudf
@@ -320,6 +330,16 @@ class ListDtype(_BaseDtype):
     element_type : object
         A dtype with which represents the element types in the list.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    element_type
+    leaf_type
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    from_arrow
+    to_arrow
+
     Examples
     --------
     >>> import cudf
@@ -496,6 +516,16 @@ class StructDtype(_BaseDtype):
         A mapping of field names to dtypes, the dtypes can themselves
         be of ``StructDtype`` too.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    fields
+    itemsize
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    from_arrow
+    to_arrow
+
     Examples
     --------
     >>> import cudf
@@ -649,6 +679,17 @@ def itemsize(self):
         scale : int, optional
             The scale of the dtype. See Notes below.
 
+        Attributes
+        ----------
+        precision
+        scale
+        itemsize
+
+        Methods
+        -------
+        to_arrow
+        from_arrow
+
         Notes
         -----
         When the scale is positive:
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/core/index.py b/python/cudf/cudf/core/index.py
index 618d2eb4553..44a1620da8a 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/core/index.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/core/index.py
@@ -156,9 +156,16 @@ class RangeIndex(BaseIndex, BinaryOperand):
     copy : bool, default False
         Unused, accepted for homogeneity with other index types.
 
-    Returns
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    start
+    stop
+    step
+
+    Methods
     -------
-    RangeIndex
+    to_numpy
+    to_arrow
 
     Examples
     --------
@@ -1637,6 +1644,14 @@ class Int8Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     Int8Index
@@ -1662,6 +1677,14 @@ class Int16Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     Int16Index
@@ -1687,6 +1710,14 @@ class Int32Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     Int32Index
@@ -1712,6 +1743,14 @@ class Int64Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     Int64Index
@@ -1737,6 +1776,14 @@ class UInt8Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     UInt8Index
@@ -1762,6 +1809,14 @@ class UInt16Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     UInt16Index
@@ -1787,6 +1842,14 @@ class UInt32Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     UInt32Index
@@ -1812,6 +1875,14 @@ class UInt64Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     UInt64Index
@@ -1837,6 +1908,14 @@ class Float32Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     Float32Index
@@ -1868,6 +1947,14 @@ class Float64Index(NumericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    None
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     Float64Index
@@ -1908,6 +1995,32 @@ class DatetimeIndex(GenericIndex):
         If True parse dates in data with the year first order.
         This is not yet supported
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    year
+    month
+    day
+    hour
+    minute
+    second
+    microsecond
+    nanosecond
+    date
+    time
+    dayofyear
+    day_of_year
+    weekday
+    quarter
+    freq
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    ceil
+    floor
+    round
+    tz_convert
+    tz_localize
+
     Returns
     -------
     DatetimeIndex
@@ -2567,6 +2680,19 @@ class TimedeltaIndex(GenericIndex):
     name : object
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    days
+    seconds
+    microseconds
+    nanoseconds
+    components
+    inferred_freq
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    None
+
     Returns
     -------
     TimedeltaIndex
@@ -2711,6 +2837,15 @@ class CategoricalIndex(GenericIndex):
     name : object, optional
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    codes
+    categories
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    equals
+
     Returns
     -------
     CategoricalIndex
@@ -2969,6 +3104,15 @@ class IntervalIndex(GenericIndex):
     name : object, optional
         Name to be stored in the index.
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    values
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    from_breaks
+    get_loc
+
     Returns
     -------
     IntervalIndex
diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/core/multiindex.py b/python/cudf/cudf/core/multiindex.py
index 3c0e29a96be..9285a21f696 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/core/multiindex.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/core/multiindex.py
@@ -68,6 +68,33 @@ class MultiIndex(Frame, BaseIndex, NotIterable):
         Check that the levels/codes are consistent and valid.
         Not yet supported
 
+    Attributes
+    ----------
+    names
+    nlevels
+    dtypes
+    levels
+    codes
+
+    Methods
+    -------
+    from_arrays
+    from_tuples
+    from_product
+    from_frame
+    set_levels
+    set_codes
+    to_frame
+    to_flat_index
+    sortlevel
+    droplevel
+    swaplevel
+    reorder_levels
+    remove_unused_levels
+    get_level_values
+    get_loc
+    drop
+
     Returns
     -------
     MultiIndex