PHOTOS: See the bold buildings that sprang up after South Asia regained independence

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What happens when a country goes from being a colony to an independent nation?

Many things change – but one wave of change doesn't often get its due: The look of buildings.

A new exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art looks at how India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka forged architectural identities of their own in the wake of their newly gained freedom. The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 will be on display through July 2.

The story begins in 1947, when the euphoria of freedom that swept through the Indian subcontinent after Britain's departure became almost immediately tempered by devastating trauma. Sectarian violence erupted and embroiled the newly formed countries of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan in a vicious conflict that uprooted approximately 13 million people and left half-a-million dead.