As Outlook has reported before, the revered site honours Guru Dattatreya, a Hindu deity believed to embody the Trimurti—Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma as a unified entity, alongside Baba Budan, a 16th-century Sufi saint credited with introducing the coffee plant to India and Dada Hayat, an 11th-century Sufi saint. However, during the build-up to the demolition of the Babri Masjid and as the Ram Janmabhoomi movement peaked in the 1990s, factions advocating the Hindutva mobilised to transform the dargah into a Dattatreya temple. They wanted to transform it into another ‘Ayodhya’.