Fellow opener Rohit, however, continues to be sidelined by the injury which cut short his tour of New Zealand.
Pandya underwent back surgery in October last year and was in fine form on his return to action in an invitational Twenty20 tournament earlier this month.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan also returned after a shoulder injury kept him out of the team's recent tour of New Zealand. Swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who was sidelined with a hernia last year, was also back in the Virat Kohli-led side. India dropped opener Mayank Agarwal, middle order batsman Kedar Jadhav, all-rounder Shivam Dube and quicks Shardul Thakur and Mohammed Shami from the squad which lost 3-0 in New Zealand.
India begin their series against South Africa in Dharamsala on Thursday, followed by matches in Lucknow and Kolkata .Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Virat Kohli , KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill.
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