Mishra, 32, who has taken 43 wickets in 13 matches, last played a Test at the Oval amid the Britain visit in 2011.
Be that as it may, the achievement of Pakistani leg-spinner Yasir Shah amid the late arrangement in Sri Lanka, where he asserted 24 wickets to lead his group to a 2-1 win, incited the selectors to run with Mishra.
"Having perceived how the Sri Lankan batsmen fared against Pakistan, our inclination was for Mishra who has likewise done well in local cricket," administrator of selectors Sandeep Patil told columnists in New Delhi.
Mishra will accomplice two off-spinners - Harbhajan Singh and Ravichandran Ashwin - in India's first Test-arrangement in the island country since 2010, when the three-match arrangement finished in a 1-1 draw.
Mishra replaces harmed leg-spinner Karn Sharma in the main change to the 15-man squad chose for the downpour destroyed attracted Test Bangladesh in June.
Youthful batsman Lokesh Rahul, who missed the Bangladesh trip because of dengue fever, was back as one of the seven authority batsmen.
The squad incorporates four seamers in Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron to perform on wickets that typically help early bob and crease development.
The arrangement will check the end of the global vocation of Sri Lankan batting awesome Kumar Sangakkara, who will resign subsequent to playing the initial two Tests.
The 37-year-old left-hander is Test cricket's driving scorer among players who are still dynamic, with 12,305 keeps running from 132 matches at a normal of 58.04 with 38 centuries.
With the Indian board still to name a successor to mentor Duncan Fletcher, whose term finished after the World Glass in February-Walk, previous Test chief Ravi Shastri will head the squad as group executive.
Shastri will be helped by three associate mentors in Sanjay Bangar (batting), Bharat Arun (knocking down some pins) and Ramakrishnan Sridhar (handling).
India's visit opens with a three-day warm-up match select group at the Premadasa stadium in Colombo from August 6 preceding the first Test gets going in Galle on August 12.
The staying two Tests will be played in Colombo, at the P. Sara Oval from August 20 and the Sinhalese Games Club from August 28.
The visit does not include any one-day or Twenty20 matches.
India squad
Virat Kohli (commander), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant Sharma.