diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
index c7e14b6b4e1b9..ac46d5d2e859d 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 import org.apache.hudi.keygen.constant.KeyGeneratorType;
 import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieMetadataPayload;
 import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.MetadataPartitionType;
 import org.apache.hudi.metrics.MetricsReporterType;
 import org.apache.hudi.metrics.datadog.DatadogHttpClient.ApiSite;
 import org.apache.hudi.storage.StoragePath;
@@ -2040,15 +2041,19 @@ public boolean useBloomIndexBucketizedChecking() {
   }
 
   public boolean isMetadataBloomFilterIndexEnabled() {
-    return isMetadataTableEnabled() && getMetadataConfig().isBloomFilterIndexEnabled();
+    return isMetadataTableEnabled() && getMetadataConfig().isBloomFilterIndexEnabled() || !isDropMetadataIndex(MetadataPartitionType.BLOOM_FILTERS.getPartitionPath());
   }
 
   public boolean isMetadataColumnStatsIndexEnabled() {
-    return isMetadataTableEnabled() && getMetadataConfig().isColumnStatsIndexEnabled();
+    return isMetadataTableEnabled() && getMetadataConfig().isColumnStatsIndexEnabled() || !isDropMetadataIndex(MetadataPartitionType.COLUMN_STATS.getPartitionPath());
   }
 
   public boolean isPartitionStatsIndexEnabled() {
-    return isMetadataTableEnabled() && getMetadataConfig().isPartitionStatsIndexEnabled();
+    return isMetadataTableEnabled() && getMetadataConfig().isPartitionStatsIndexEnabled() || !isDropMetadataIndex(MetadataPartitionType.PARTITION_STATS.getPartitionPath());
+  }
+
+  public boolean isDropMetadataIndex(String indexName) {
+    return StringUtils.nonEmpty(getMetadataConfig().getMetadataIndexToDrop()) && getMetadataConfig().getMetadataIndexToDrop().equals(indexName);
   }
 
   public int getPartitionStatsIndexParallelism() {
@@ -2557,7 +2562,7 @@ public boolean isLogCompactionEnabledOnMetadata() {
   }
 
   public boolean isRecordIndexEnabled() {
-    return metadataConfig.isRecordIndexEnabled();
+    return metadataConfig.isRecordIndexEnabled() || !isDropMetadataIndex(MetadataPartitionType.RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath());
   }
 
   public int getRecordIndexMinFileGroupCount() {
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
index 797624f885952..1095b3c9deb4d 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
@@ -1097,9 +1097,9 @@ engineContext, dataWriteConfig, commitMetadata, instantTime, dataMetaClient, get
 
       // Updates for record index are created by parsing the WriteStatus which is a hudi-client object. Hence, we cannot yet move this code
       // to the HoodieTableMetadataUtil class in hudi-common.
-      if (dataWriteConfig.isRecordIndexEnabled()) {
-        HoodieData<HoodieRecord> additionalUpdates = getRecordIndexAdditionalUpserts(partitionToRecordMap.get(MetadataPartitionType.RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath()), commitMetadata);
-        partitionToRecordMap.put(RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath(), partitionToRecordMap.get(MetadataPartitionType.RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath()).union(additionalUpdates));
+      if (dataWriteConfig.isRecordIndexEnabled() && RECORD_INDEX.isMetadataPartitionAvailable(dataMetaClient)) {
+        HoodieData<HoodieRecord> additionalUpdates = getRecordIndexAdditionalUpserts(partitionToRecordMap.get(RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath()), commitMetadata);
+        partitionToRecordMap.put(RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath(), partitionToRecordMap.get(RECORD_INDEX.getPartitionPath()).union(additionalUpdates));
       }
       updateExpressionIndexIfPresent(commitMetadata, instantTime, partitionToRecordMap);
       updateSecondaryIndexIfPresent(commitMetadata, partitionToRecordMap, instantTime);
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTable.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTable.java
index a2fe256f5ac9b..88bfda7df7925 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTable.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/HoodieTable.java
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieActiveTimeline;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieTimeline;
-import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.InstantGenerator;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.InstantFileNameGenerator;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.InstantFileNameParser;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.InstantGenerator;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.view.FileSystemViewManager;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.view.HoodieTableFileSystemView;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.table.view.SyncableFileSystemView;
@@ -1051,10 +1051,41 @@ private boolean shouldDeleteMetadataPartition(MetadataPartitionType partitionTyp
     if (isMetadataTable() || !config.isMetadataTableEnabled()) {
       return false;
     }
-    boolean metadataIndexDisabled = !partitionType.isMetadataPartitionAvailable(metaClient);
+    boolean metadataIndexDisabled = isMetadataIndexDisabled(partitionType);
     return metadataIndexDisabled && metaClient.getTableConfig().getMetadataPartitions().contains(partitionType.getPartitionPath());
   }
 
+  private boolean isMetadataIndexDisabled(MetadataPartitionType partitionType) {
+    boolean metadataIndexDisabled;
+    switch (partitionType) {
+      // NOTE: FILES partition type is always considered in sync with hoodie.metadata.enable.
+      //       It cannot be the case that metadata is enabled but FILES is disabled.
+      case COLUMN_STATS:
+        metadataIndexDisabled = !config.isMetadataColumnStatsIndexEnabled();
+        break;
+      case BLOOM_FILTERS:
+        metadataIndexDisabled = !config.isMetadataBloomFilterIndexEnabled();
+        break;
+      case RECORD_INDEX:
+        metadataIndexDisabled = !config.isRecordIndexEnabled();
+        break;
+      // PARTITION_STATS should have same behavior as COLUMN_STATS
+      case PARTITION_STATS:
+        metadataIndexDisabled = !config.isPartitionStatsIndexEnabled();
+        break;
+      // Expression and Secondary index can be in different partitions for different keys,
+      // and do not delete unless DROP INDEX is called.
+      case EXPRESSION_INDEX:
+      case SECONDARY_INDEX:
+        metadataIndexDisabled = !partitionType.isMetadataPartitionAvailable(metaClient);
+        break;
+      default:
+        LOG.debug("Not a valid metadata partition type: " + partitionType.name());
+        return false;
+    }
+    return metadataIndexDisabled;
+  }
+
   private boolean shouldExecuteMetadataTableDeletion() {
     // Only execute metadata table deletion when all the following conditions are met
     // (1) This is data table
diff --git a/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/config/HoodieMetadataConfig.java b/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/config/HoodieMetadataConfig.java
index d30b0e0d63522..d3ff2c1950ce2 100644
--- a/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/config/HoodieMetadataConfig.java
+++ b/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/config/HoodieMetadataConfig.java
@@ -23,14 +23,17 @@
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.exception.HoodieNotSupportedException;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.MetadataPartitionType;
 
 import javax.annotation.concurrent.Immutable;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 /**
  * Configurations used by the HUDI Metadata Table.
@@ -391,6 +394,16 @@ public final class HoodieMetadataConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       .sinceVersion("1.0.0")
       .withDocumentation("Parallelism to use, when generating secondary index.");
 
+  // Config to specify metadata index to delete
+  public static final ConfigProperty<String> DROP_METADATA_INDEX = ConfigProperty
+      .key(METADATA_PREFIX + ".index.drop")
+      .noDefaultValue()
+      .sinceVersion("1.0.1")
+      .withDocumentation("Drop the specified index. "
+          + "The value should be the name of the index to delete. You can check index names using `SHOW INDEXES` command. "
+          + "The index name either starts with or matches exactly can be one of the following: "
+          + StringUtils.join(Arrays.stream(MetadataPartitionType.values()).map(MetadataPartitionType::getPartitionPath).collect(Collectors.toList()), ", "));
+
   public long getMaxLogFileSize() {
     return getLong(MAX_LOG_FILE_SIZE_BYTES_PROP);
   }
@@ -552,6 +565,10 @@ public int getSecondaryIndexParallelism() {
     return getInt(SECONDARY_INDEX_PARALLELISM);
   }
 
+  public String getMetadataIndexToDrop() {
+    return getString(DROP_METADATA_INDEX);
+  }
+
   public static class Builder {
 
     private EngineType engineType = EngineType.SPARK;
@@ -760,6 +777,11 @@ public Builder withSecondaryIndexParallelism(int parallelism) {
       return this;
     }
 
+    public Builder withDropMetadataIndex(String indexName) {
+      metadataConfig.setValue(DROP_METADATA_INDEX, indexName);
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public HoodieMetadataConfig build() {
       metadataConfig.setDefaultValue(ENABLE, getDefaultMetadataEnable(engineType));
       metadataConfig.setDefaultValue(ENABLE_METADATA_INDEX_COLUMN_STATS, getDefaultColStatsEnable(engineType));
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestColumnStatsIndex.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestColumnStatsIndex.scala
index 669fc0e50e1f3..3d13651bb8d44 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestColumnStatsIndex.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestColumnStatsIndex.scala
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import org.apache.hudi.common.util.{ParquetUtils, StringUtils}
 import org.apache.hudi.config.{HoodieCompactionConfig, HoodieWriteConfig}
 import org.apache.hudi.functional.ColumnStatIndexTestBase.ColumnStatsTestCase
 import org.apache.hudi.functional.ColumnStatIndexTestBase.ColumnStatsTestParams
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.MetadataPartitionType.COLUMN_STATS
 import org.apache.hudi.storage.hadoop.HadoopStorageConfiguration
 import org.apache.hudi.{ColumnStatsIndexSupport, DataSourceWriteOptions, config}
 import org.apache.spark.sql._
@@ -162,6 +163,7 @@ class TestColumnStatsIndex extends ColumnStatIndexTestBase {
     val metadataOpts3 = Map(
       HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key -> "true",
       HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE_METADATA_INDEX_COLUMN_STATS.key -> "false",
+      HoodieMetadataConfig.DROP_METADATA_INDEX.key -> COLUMN_STATS.getPartitionPath,
       HoodieMetadataConfig.COLUMN_STATS_INDEX_FOR_COLUMNS.key -> "c1,c2,c3,c5,c7" // ignore c4,c5,c8.
     )
     // disable col stats