Naked singularities in higher dimensional inhomogeneous dust collapse

We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the grav itational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by a non-self-s imilar higher dimensional Tolman spacetime. The necessary condition for the formation of a naked singularity or a black hole is obtained. The naked si ngularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler a nd provide another example that violates the cosmic censorship conjecture.