What were some important inventions from the Mughal empire?

Answers are of the expected sort.

Gunpowder and guns, and other similar nonsense. One guy all but says that Indians were incapable of scientific thought but clearly that's in line with Quora BNBR.

Clearly modern intellectuals believe that hating Indians is kosher in society.

At any rate…

Mughal India was essentially a robber economy, outside the reigns of the Emperors Akbar and Jehangir- and thus we find limited potential for “technological research” outside their reigns.

What research was this?

1- During Akbar's reign, there was a great deal of interest in labour-saving devices. First, by increasing the output of individual artists by the means of multiple machines linked to gears & then by trying to automate the designs and operating them with animal power. We have mentions of such devices but no clue just how they managed this.

Failed. Because human labour was far cheaper and efficient.

2- Mass-production of Military goods. There seems to have been some kind of Assembly system for churning out the tens of thousands of guns, bedding, prefabricated wooden fortifications, and rockets the Mughals used. A single Karkhana with ten men could apparently produce over ten thousand rockets every week; a rate unparalleled by any other State until the early 1800s. We have no clue just how they managed this.

Failed. Because the Bureaucracy collapsed under Shah Jehan.

3- Artillery design and development. Mughal Artillery under Jehangir was the finest in the World. Organ guns were developed. Long-range Rocketry became viable for the first time. A primitive Gatling-esque gun was developed. These existed and were in vogue even in the 1800s at isolated areas.

Failed. Because the Bureaucracy collapsed under Shah Jehan and excessive State secrecy. These guns were also neither standardized nor cheap. A single 17th century Karkhana could be far more advanced than any other similar Institution in the World- but each of them jealously kept its secrets. So western advancements like standardized shot, logistical chains, and fast training was impossible.

4- Primitive Refrigerators and Food Preservation techniques. Abu Fazl describes an invention that could make Ice even in summer. We have mentions and rough designs but no clue just how they managed this.

Failed. Because it was cheaper to have entire blocks of Himalayan ice transported to Delhi than make it at the spot.

The Mughals were also keen upon stuff like Chemical warfare- though I'm unaware of any attempt to utilise it in any significant manner. They were also extremely- until Aurangzeb put a stop to transcending the limits placed on Allah, lol- gung-ho on understanding what made a human tick.

So they'd do stuff like locking up babies and seeing how they grew up in absence of stimuli, studying the long-term effects of fear and torture on animals and humans, the amount of pressure a human could take before cracking- both literally and figuratively. Heard the Akbar-Birbal story of the monkey and its child? There's a good chance it actually happened.

I suppose readers can sense a pattern here.

Anyway, the Mughals never adopted the Printing Press and appear to have actively opposed it in some manner so they were effectively shooting themselves in the foot every generation. As it is, the most surprising thing about the entire business is that India's great intellectuals who otherwise can't stop pontificating on the dubious virtues of these often brilliant, invariably murderous tyrants- simply DON'T mention any of the more productive aspects of Mughal Imperium.

It's always Aurangzeb the Secular making pyramids of Hindu skulls or Jehangir the Just turning the State into a giant sex slave market or Akbar the Great murdering everyone in Chittor and carrying off the kids to slave into making his “Indo-Islamic” buildings.

What does this, more importantly, teach us about Indian Academics and their inner-most motives?

When people like us mock and deride Indian scholars and intellectuals, it's more two reasons:-

1- Thapar and her ilk are not only frauds, they're lazy frauds. Salma-sabrining about “rich Mughal heritage” is a far more low-risk-high-return strategy than breaking heads against the typical Firang scholars and Arab NGOs who fund her escapades and thinks of Indians as subhumans.

2- In some manner, these people are basically daring Hindus. Like O'Brien in 1984, they're floating off the ground like a soap bubble and daring us to prick them open. They don't give a shit about the Mughals, save as a tool to threaten and mock Hindus with.

And Hindu scholars believe they can be “debated” and “brought to the right”. Hilarious.