Synopsis This book, as its very title indicates, is essentially concerned with various aspects of Societies, Cultures and Ideologies. True to the subtitle of the book, the author offers analyses and interpretations of the basic social institutions, processes, their changing forms of interaction and the resulting values with special reference to India. In the themes covered in this book, disciplines like Philosophy, History, Ethnography and Ethics are perspectively interwoven. In his exposition the author goes deep into the ideas of many influential Indian and Western thinkers of different ages-ancient, medieval and modern. This book provides a definitive re-statement of Chattopadhyaya’s research and thought for the last forty-five years. This book will be interest to social scientists, historians, philosophers and the general reader.